All this talk about starting things, makes me think, one of the coolest ways of starting anything I have heard of is the way they used to start the SR-71's, the NASA and Air Force mach 3 spy plane that nothing could shoot down. They used to start the Pratt J58 jet engines on those with ground based power carts consisting of two V-8 car engines ganged together to a commomn vertical PTO shaft. They would roll it up to the plane, connect up the shafting, fire up the V-8's, clutch 'em in and let 'er rip. NASA used two Holley-carbureted Nail-head Buick Wildcat V-8's in their starter carts and the Air Force used Chevy 427's. Why they used common car engines and not something more exotic, I dont know. Maybe they were using up too much of the budget by the time they got to the starter, so they just had to make do with whatever they could scrounge up. They might have raided the parking lot. These carts are now museum pieces. Look 'em up on Google under SR-71, you will find links and pix.
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