Re: RAFGSA Bicester

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On Thursday, January 16, 2003 6:37:23 PM UTC-5, Whitson Bush wrote:
> Just wondering how many of us have flown at Bicester and when.

If I remember correctly, Paddy towed in a Chipmonk. It did not have a starter ....they started it with -believe it or not - shotgun shell blanks. Never seen anything like it!

[Colin Wray[_3_]]

On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 16:01:24 UTC+1, wrote:
> On Thursday, January 16, 2003 6:37:23 PM UTC-5, Whitson Bush wrote:
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> > Just wondering how many of us have flown at Bicester and when.
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> If I remember correctly, Paddy towed in a Chipmonk. It did not have a starter ....they started it with -believe it or not - shotgun shell blanks. Never seen anything like it!

All RAF Chipmunks had Coffman cartridge starters. They were only converted to electric when demobbed and put on the civil register.

[Chris Rollings[_2_]]

At 20:18 08 October 2014, Colin Wray wrote:
>On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 16:01:24 UTC+1, wrote:
>> On Thursday, January 16, 2003 6:37:23 PM UTC-5, Whitson Bush wrote:
>>
>> > Just wondering how many of us have flown at Bicester and when.
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>> If I remember correctly, Paddy towed in a Chipmonk. It did not have a
>starter ....they started it with -believe it or not - shotgun shell
>blanks. Never seen anything like it!
>
>All RAF Chipmunks had Coffman cartridge starters. They were only
converted
>to electric when demobbed and put on the civil register.
>

That was because us Civvies would have needed a firearms license for the
cartridge starter!

[[email protected]]

On Thursday, October 9, 2014 8:36:11 AM UTC+2, Chris Rollings wrote:
> At 20:18 08 October 2014, Colin Wray wrote:
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> >On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 16:01:24 UTC+1, wrote:
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> >> On Thursday, January 16, 2003 6:37:23 PM UTC-5, Whitson Bush wrote:
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> >>
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> >> > Just wondering how many of us have flown at Bicester and when.
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> >> If I remember correctly, Paddy towed in a Chipmonk. It did not have a
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> >starter ....they started it with -believe it or not - shotgun shell
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> >blanks. Never seen anything like it!
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> >
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> >All RAF Chipmunks had Coffman cartridge starters. They were only
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> converted
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> >to electric when demobbed and put on the civil register.
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> That was because us Civvies would have needed a firearms license for the
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> cartridge starter!

We also started them by hand in the 70's that was before they put the Lycoming engines in them.

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Coffman cartridge starters.

See "Flight of the Phoenix":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IACjOvyx5hs

[Steve Leonard[_2_]]

On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 8:38:16 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> Coffman cartridge starters. See "Flight of the Phoenix": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IACjOvyx5hs

Or, to see a "non Hollywood" cartridge start,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65qrzgbTTcQ

Steve