Aircraft engine starting

Many variations of aircraft engine starting have been used since the Wright brothers made their first powered flight in 1903. ^[1]

4 relations: Hucks starter, Modern Air Transport, Rolls-Royce Trent, 1977 British Airtours Boeing 707 crash.

Hucks starter

A Hucks starter is an auxiliary power unit, almost always a motortruck, that provides initial power to start up piston aircraft engines.

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Modern Air Transport, Inc. (originally Modern Air Transport/MAT, subsequently Modern Air) was a United States-based non-scheduled and supplemental carrierholder of supplemental air carrier certificate authorised to operate non-scheduled passenger and cargo services to supplement the scheduled operations of certificated route air carriers; an airline holding a supplemental air carrier certificate was also known as a "nonsked" in the US founded in 1946.

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Rolls-Royce Trent

Rolls-Royce Trent is a British family of three spool, high bypass turbofan aircraft engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc.

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1977 British Airtours Boeing 707 crash

On 17 March 1977 a British Airtours Boeing 707 being used for pilot training crashed and caught fire during its take-off roll at Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_engine_starting

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