t68
Well-Known Member
Just found this thought i would share,its from the Marine Corps Air Transport Association 2005 no name on who wrote it.
DEDICATED TO ALL WHO FLEW BEHIND BIG ROUND ENGINES, OR WISHED THEY DID.
We gotta get rid of those tur¬bines; they’re ruining aviation and our hearing
A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery. The air travels through it in a straight line and doesn’t pickup any of the pun¬gent fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat. Anybody can start a turbine. You just move a switch from “OFF” to “START” and then remember to move it back to “ON” after a while.
My PC is harder to start.
Cranking a round engine re¬quires skill, finesse and style. You have to seduce it into start¬ing. Its like waking an old mis¬tress. On some planes the pilots aren’t even allowed to do it...
Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a lady-like poof and start whining a little louder.
Round engines give a satisfy¬ing rattle-rattle, clack - clack, BANG......more rattles, a big macho fart or two, more clacks and clicks, a lot of smoke and finally a low pitched roar.
We like that. It’s a guy thing.
When you start a round engine your mind is engaged and you can concentrate on the flight ahead.........Starting a turbine is like turning on a ceiling fan. Useful, but hardly exciting.
When you’ve started his round engine successfully, your crew chief looks at you like he’d let you kiss his girl friend
Turbines don’t break or catch fire often enough, leading to aircrew boredom, inattention and complacency. And in flying we all know that complacency kills. A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it’s going to blow any minute. This helps concentrate the mind.
Turbine engines don’t have enough control levers and gauges to keep a pilots attention. There’s nothing to fiddle with during long flights. If something goes wrong, turbine pilots have to read their Operating Hand¬books, round engine pilots just read their gauges.
Turbine engines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman lanterns. Round engines smell like gasoline and burned oil like God intended engines to smell. Nascar fans would understand.
Pass this on to another old pilot or crew chief in remembrance of that “Greatest Generation” of round engines.
DEDICATED TO ALL WHO FLEW BEHIND BIG ROUND ENGINES, OR WISHED THEY DID.
We gotta get rid of those tur¬bines; they’re ruining aviation and our hearing
A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery. The air travels through it in a straight line and doesn’t pickup any of the pun¬gent fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat. Anybody can start a turbine. You just move a switch from “OFF” to “START” and then remember to move it back to “ON” after a while.
My PC is harder to start.
Cranking a round engine re¬quires skill, finesse and style. You have to seduce it into start¬ing. Its like waking an old mis¬tress. On some planes the pilots aren’t even allowed to do it...
Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a lady-like poof and start whining a little louder.
Round engines give a satisfy¬ing rattle-rattle, clack - clack, BANG......more rattles, a big macho fart or two, more clacks and clicks, a lot of smoke and finally a low pitched roar.
We like that. It’s a guy thing.
When you start a round engine your mind is engaged and you can concentrate on the flight ahead.........Starting a turbine is like turning on a ceiling fan. Useful, but hardly exciting.
When you’ve started his round engine successfully, your crew chief looks at you like he’d let you kiss his girl friend
Turbines don’t break or catch fire often enough, leading to aircrew boredom, inattention and complacency. And in flying we all know that complacency kills. A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it’s going to blow any minute. This helps concentrate the mind.
Turbine engines don’t have enough control levers and gauges to keep a pilots attention. There’s nothing to fiddle with during long flights. If something goes wrong, turbine pilots have to read their Operating Hand¬books, round engine pilots just read their gauges.
Turbine engines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman lanterns. Round engines smell like gasoline and burned oil like God intended engines to smell. Nascar fans would understand.
Pass this on to another old pilot or crew chief in remembrance of that “Greatest Generation” of round engines.