Wilton,
Do you know about the 40s vintage cartridge starters? The cartridges in
the book "Flight of the Phoenix" were described as a blank shotgun
shell. I am guessing that for a 40's vintage radial engine the
requirements were less than the requirement for starting 8 jet engines.
Regarding the B-52, after your post, I found this:
During the same period, a long-standing SAC requirement, only endorsed for
the B-52Hs, was finally extended to all B-52s. Started in January 1963 and
completed in March of the following year, this retrofit project put 2
cartridge starters in every B-52. The installation of cartridge starters
was not simple. The aircraft's electrical system had to be modified to
accommodate the new starters and new valves. In addition, duct covers had
to be redesigned and nickel cadmium batteries had to be added. The
modification was expensive, which accounted for SAC's difficulties in
getting it approved for the entire B-52 force, but it was important.
Besides giving crews the means to start their engines faster, it would
allow dispersed or post-strike B-52s to take off from airfields lacking
certain ground support equipment, electrical power carts in particular.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-52h.htm
At 10:19 PM 11/8/2005, you wrote:
About 25 yrs ago, all 8 engines on B-52's were retrofitted with cartridge
starters for alert starts. Cartridge is like a gallon paint can full of
solid rocket fuel; spins starter at ~ 45k rpm. All 8 engines can be started
at same time in < a minute by hitting one switch; also makes lots of smoke.
Can also start one at a time, of course. In lieu of cartridge, comp. air is
used; after one engine is running, air from it can start others.
Wilton
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