Originally Posted by
megan
Thanks td, reingestion was an issue with helos I flew on occasion, had to get tarmac to turn them so wind wasn't blowing up the tail.
When Boeing pulled the first 747 (RA001 - currently on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle) out of mothballs to flight test the 777 engines, it still had JT9D's on the other three positions. At the time I'd been involved in ground engine runs, and was onboard when they were doing engine "trim" runs on the JT9Ds. We had about a 10-knot tail wind when they were trying to start the JT9Ds - and they couldn't get
two of them started until they moved the aircraft to get rid of the tailwind...
Granted, they were old, rather tied JT9Ds, but still
