Originally Posted by WalterMitty
Nothing quite like the sound of four R4360's coming to life. Sounded like you were going to go somewhere. Modern Turboprops are kind of... anticlimatic.
I wouldn't want to go back mind you, but as a young A&P student it was a thrill to go out with Dad to Tinker and be around the big planes.
The Thuds that came to the unit later were sexier of course, but that was a different world altogether.
The tremendous clouds of smoke on ignition/startup were something to behold on an O- dark-thirty cool damp morning. "Walking the prop" was an unforgetable "why me again" pre-flight detail.