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Paul - did you ever see a McDowell Safety Starter? Used on some Aeronca planes, and others. You start it turning from inside the cabin, then engage the gear to turn the engine.

https://www.aeronca.com/manuals/airplane_starter_patent_2266098.pdf

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Tom I've heard of them but this is the first one I've seen. They also had hand cranked controllable pitched wood props back then. I've seen a couple of those. Very unique designs for aircraft with no electrical or hydraulic power and usually low horse power. PJ

Oh, nearly forgot, just found this in a pile of photos and scanned it. A friend in his Pitts and I were playing around one day and he snapped this. Amazing what you find digging through old photos.

 
...and she flies! TBM Avenger, Bureau number 91426 returned to the sky after a 12 year effort.
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Very rewarding experience for the ones who got her to this stage. Nice, really nice! PJ
 
Here's a link to the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVYIAnL6JzY#t=211

The video doesn't do justice to how powerful and how loud the Wright 2600 engine was. I drove my Sprite up to Hagerstown yesterday. Oddly enough, the 1275's idle had the same cadence as the 2600 "bumpity bumpity bumpity", although it was a lot quieter. That made a number of the people smile.
 
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