where in the hell do you find a case of NOS Aircraft shot gun shells from WW II why would you use them they cannot be replaced they would worth a fortune for a collector . Somebody grabbed to start a plane it would be like oh hell no not my NOS shot gun shells

Who did the blades start turning prior to the shotgun shell going off??

Love that first startup idle.

I think for an emergency start the system is also used in the B52s till today. Of course the "cartridges" are bigger , the size of a thermos bottle.

Jimmy Stewart did it more dramatically

Very effective, great video ! 👍

They need this for a lot of Harleys. 😄

Amazing! Did it start first try?

Wasn't the plane in Flight Of The Phoenix a cartridge start?

Sweet! but, it sounded like there was an inertial starter whine then the pop!

Flight of the Phoenix

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Most excellent

Shotgun wedding to follow!

Who is watching this because of Flight of the Phoenix?

Cordite is a British cylindrical propellant nearly the length of a cartridge case. It is not a general term for gunpowder. Most American powders were (and still are) short cylinders or tiny spheres, aka ball powder. Pet peeve of mine.

At first i was thinking the engine would be shot full of buckshot !

The Sea Griffins fitted to RAF target towing launches had Coffman starters fitted to them.When in public, starting both engines at the same time was an amusing trick,lots of noise and black smoke.Used to frighten those not in the know.

DEPENDABLE ENGINES PW !!

FAN-TAS-TIC ! Every thing worked ?

The Coffman Starter wasn't standard on F-4-F Wildcats. They used a ship's air connected air started on later models, the early Models used twin hand cranks that deck crew "wound them up" to start. I wasn't aware that F4F's of FM-2 ever used a Wright engine. The F4F's all use Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" engines rated at 1200HP "War Emergency" settings. All Curtis Helldivers DID only use Coffman starters. The F3F Grumman biplane fighters used Coffman starters on their Wright 1825 Cyclones (yes, the same engine without a turbo-supercharger, as B-17D's on used). Without a supercharger, they were rated first at 950 HP at takeoff, later at 1175 HP at takeoff. Pilots that flew F3F's knew a fighter that would MANUVER!!! I worked with a Navy pilot that flew F3F's, F4F''s and F6F's. He broke his nose snap-rolling an F3F!

The 'English Electric Canberra' bombers, used by Australia in the Vietnam War, were still started via a shotgun cartridge, albeit a much bigger one, and they were jet engines.

Well,that was AWESOME. And it started way faster than I thought it was gonna.

I knew of these but had not seen them in operation. That's remarkable how well that works.

What guage is that? Looks way bigger than a 10 guage.

How many wildcat Aircraft are left in the world?

"Flight of the Phoenix!"

there was a movie with Jimmy Stewart where they Crashed in the desert and made a Makeshift Airplane out of what Survived and it took 3shotgun shells to start it and the arabs were chasing them as they took off

Koffman starter.

Magnificent. Started right up. Long live Pratt & Whitney! Edit: Oops. While most Wildcats ran the P & W R1830 Twin Wasp 14 cylinder engine, this variant most likely has the Wright R1820 Cyclone 9 cylinder. My Apologies. Long live Pratt & Whitney anyway!

Thus the golf term....shotgun start!

The radial engine is an engineering masterpiece.

Sweet, she fired right up with no fuss. Great job guys.

The only thing that could top this is a ww2 shotgun starter. (See the f6f wildcat)

My uncle probably started RNZAF Corsairs like this in WWII.

Jimmy Stewart used these to get out of the desert 😂

Why does it start to turn half a second before the bang is heard?

Just because a technology is "old" does not mean it is out of date. I still shave with the straight razor my great grandfather game me and my father taught me to use. I read a steam locomotive will still out pull a diesel but the diesels are easier to start and other offsetting advantages.

I think they still use a similar method for B-52 fast starts.

Very cool

Poor old lady soiled herself. She's still a looker though.

That was a non-event. I was expecting the guy standing there to nervously keep track of the start attempts with his fingers.

It's missing what appears to be lower right wing fuel dry bay access panels.

Wow. That’s much better than the electric starter.

Awesome to see a late war upgraded variant of the wildcat fire up its engines!!

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What paint scheme is it in?

Some British two stroke tractors used this starting system as well

Watch a B 57 cartridge start. Crazy black smoke cloud

Excellent !