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Aircraft of Germany in WWII.
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Have You Pull-Started Your 'Me 262' Lately?
JPTRR
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Posted: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 08:56 AM UTC
I remember this but now there's a blog about it.

Have You Pull-Started Your 'Me 262' Lately?
Jessie_C
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Posted: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 09:26 AM UTC
Towards the end of the war when lack of fuel kept the Luftwaffe grounded the Me 262 bases had suspiciously neat grounds and lawns, and suspiciously empty starter cowlings.
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Posted: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 09:57 AM UTC
This starter system was developed by Norbert Riedel and is called "Riedel starter". It's a kind of a early auxiliary power unit and it was used this way in all of the Junkers Jumo 004 and BMW 003 jet engines the germans used in WW2.
As a 2-stroke engine with 10 HP it needs just a small amount of petrol.
Thomas
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Posted: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 10:32 AM UTC

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Towards the end of the war when lack of fuel kept the Luftwaffe grounded the Me 262 bases had suspiciously neat grounds and lawns, and suspiciously empty starter cowlings.


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