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Old 6th September 2010 | 20:26
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ShyTorque

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You could do startups in no time etc.
But a turbine takes very little time to start in any case. A large percentage of start time for a twin engined EMS helicopter these days comes from waiting for the avionics to come on line, not its turbine engines.
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