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Old 6th Aug 2009, 03:24
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Brian Abraham
 
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The aircraft is designed with a starter motor. If the starter motor is inoperative or the battery is too weak to turn the prop over enough to get a start then defect it in the maintenance release (battery or starter or both depending).
Even the big radials (DC-3, DC-4 etc) came with procedures in the manuals, at least in the USAF, for hand propping in the event of being otherwise "stuck".
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