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Lakeview Bill
Yep.
37mm.
Used to have one as a desk ornament.
I rode the training tower at Willie using these shells. All the jet
Pilots and students had to ride tahe ejection training tower.
Big John
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:35:40 GMT, "Lakeview Bill"
<bdentonchi@hotmail.com> wrote:
>From what I've read, the output of the firing mechanism, which was really
>only a large column of moving air, was fed directly into one of the existing
>cylinders.
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>If you can get your hands on a copy of the original version of "The Flight
>of the Phoenix", there's a scene where Jimmy Stewart (who had been a B-24
>bomber pilot in WWII), is trying to start a cobbled-together aircraft with a
>shotgun starter. He only has a limited number of shells; naturally, it
>starts on the last one.
>
>BTW: Did you know that ejection seats were once powered by cannon shells?
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>"Dick" <rwripper@prodigy.net> wrote in message
>news:hSh%e.1730$OH3.1602@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net...
>> Was talking with some WW2 guys who remembered the use of 10 gauge shotgun
>> shells to start an aircraft engine. I have seen several movies showing
>> something but my question is how did it work? shell in seperate cylinder
>> from pistons and how push crank over, etc??
>>
>>
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