PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Dumby Question - How do jet engines start?
Old 5th Sep 2002, 13:04
  #14 (permalink)  
lomapaseo
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida
Posts: 4,569
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
>In Chuck Yeager's auto-biography her talks about parking one aircraft with its engine running in front of the one to be started and using the efflux to turn the engine of the rear a/c. Can't remember the type but it was something of the F86/F100 vintage.
<

Here I thought this thread was now dead with all those good answers above. But isn't the F86 a centrifugal compressor powered jet? If so, how do you air start one of these using ram air in the front?

Somehow I can't see it pressuirizing those burner cans enough to hold the flame in front of the turbine wheel.
lomapaseo is offline