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In article <1128348747.677074.189450@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"jmk" <james.knox@l-3com.com> wrote:
> >> Cartridge start was also used on jets.
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> The British Camberra used them. It's a high altitude spy plane that we
> licensed the design for, so that we could turn it into the U-2. One of
> the changes we made was to get rid of the cartridge start, because the
> huge mass of black smoke was considered "not high tech."
Canberra and U-2 were totally separate aircraft! U-2 was a
single-engine, indigenous Lockheed design, based on high-performance
sailplanes of the day.
Canberra was a twin-engined British design for a high-altitude bomber.
The Martin Co. modified the Canberra into the B-57; the special
reconnaisance aircraft was the "RB-57D/E," which looked somewhat like
the B-57, but with much longer wings and different engines.
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Re: Shotgun Starts
