Yup - helped Dad start the R755 Jacobs in the Cessna 195 one new years day in MN at -30F. Not much wind, luckly. With the straight W50 oil in the crankcase, we couldn't move the prop by hanging on it. Had to warm it with a space heater and tarp for an hour, shovel out the shattered frozen battery, and run the Southwind gasoline heater in the cabin (5 gal. oil tank in there under the instrument panel) to get it to start.
The take-off run sure was short though -- On 12/9/05, Christopher McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > having lived in WI, MN and the "Standing Rock Nation" (aka North West South > Dakota) - I agree - this isn't too bad. (Got frost bite when it was -27 F > WITHOUT the windchill - and there was ALOT of wind). > -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC The FSM created the Diesel Benz http://www.venganza.org/
