Need help at DFW, we need a jump start
Who has enough truck to jump start a MD 80?
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jus2shy wrote:
I wonder how long on the huffer it'd take to start those two tiny engines. Still the biggest pain in the ass to jump start is a DC-8. No APU and it takes sooooo damn long just to spin 1 engine up... then you have 3 more to spin-up afterwards! Even the 747's seem to take far less time once you spin 1 engine up, and at least it has an APU to pull air from to start-up so you don't always have to use the huffer to get things going.
Think a DC-8 is slow to start - no slower than a Boeing 707/KC- 135 and really not slower than a B-52 with 8 engines. That is until they installed cartridge starters on the later B-52 models.
