Super Constellation cold engine start and take off

[Simpo Two]

A graceful old bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K6vRaQoOsc

[aeropilot]

brickwall said:

The flames coming out of the engine on startup!

You want flames...

This dusk take off by the Quantas Connie is more representative of a flame spitting Connie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dExlu488bM4

And then there's the Eastern Airlines DC-7 running up before take-off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOD25EjeFH8

Edited by aeropilot on Sunday 4th December 21:43

[Floptimus Prime]

Simpo Two said:

A graceful old bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K6vRaQoOsc

Probably a dumb question but I'll ask anyway. Why can I hear a jet engine sound before the main prop engines start up?
Is there a jet somewhere that I can't see?

[aeropilot]

Floptimus Prime said:

Simpo Two said:

A graceful old bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K6vRaQoOsc

Probably a dumb question but I'll ask anyway. Why can I hear a jet engine sound before the main prop engines start up?
Is there a jet somewhere that I can't see?

Yes.

[Sixpackpert]

aeropilot said:

You want flames...

This dusk take off by the Quantas Connie is more representative of a flame spitting Connie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOD25EjeFH8

And then there's the Eastern Airlines DC-7 running up before take-off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOD25EjeFH8

Both links are the same!

[aeropilot]

Sixpackpert said:

aeropilot said:

You want flames...

This dusk take off by the Quantas Connie is more representative of a flame spitting Connie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOD25EjeFH8

And then there's the Eastern Airlines DC-7 running up before take-off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOD25EjeFH8

Both links are the same!

Bugger....

Have edited original post.

[Simpo Two]

aeropilot said:

Floptimus Prime said:

Is there a jet somewhere that I can't see?

Yes.

I thought it was some kind of APU but Aeropilot knows more than me.

[Steve_D]

Simpo Two said:

aeropilot said:

Floptimus Prime said:

Is there a jet somewhere that I can't see?

Yes.

I thought it was some kind of APU but Aeropilot knows more than me.

I also thought it was a ground power unit for the startup.

Steve

[Fabric]

Steve_D said:

Simpo Two said:

aeropilot said:

Floptimus Prime said:

Is there a jet somewhere that I can't see?

Yes.

I thought it was some kind of APU but Aeropilot knows more than me.

I also thought it was a ground power unit for the startup.

Steve

I wondered too, when I couldn't spot anything nearby on the ground. It's an APU mounted within the tail, according to Google.

[aeropilot]

I don't it's the APU making that noise though in that vid, it's far too loud.

If you 'youtube' other Connie start-ups (this a/c plus the Aussie one, and the ex-mil EC-121 recently flown) there's not the very loud 'gas turbine' noise that you hear in that vid....so, I still think it's another jet nearby out of shot.

Did the civvie airliner Connie's or Super Connie's have the APU though, I had a feeling it was only the mil-spec versions like the EC-121...??

[spitfire-ian]

aeropilot said:

I don't it's the APU making that noise though in that vid, it's far too loud.

If you 'youtube' other Connie start-ups (this a/c plus the Aussie one, and the ex-mil EC-121 recently flown) there's not the very loud 'gas turbine' noise that you hear in that vid....so, I still think it's another jet nearby out of shot.

Did the civvie airliner Connie's or Super Connie's have the APU though, I had a feeling it was only the mil-spec versions like the EC-121...??

The Breitling one started off as a military one.