The Coffman engine starter (also known as a "shotgun starter") was a starting system used on many piston engines in aircraft and armored vehicles of the...

A starter (also self-starter, cranking motor, or starter motor) is a device used to rotate (crank) an internal-combustion engine so as to initiate the...

waned during the 1930s as new forms of integral starters, such as the Coffman starter, were introduced to service. While many Hucks starters were scrapped...

requirement to guard against the risk of the starter motor failing to disengage from the engine. The Coffman starter was an explosive cartridge operated device...

starter motors. Coffman engine starter - A similar system which uses an explosive cartridge to supply gas pressure. Aircraft engine starting Components...

and cost estimates. Air-start system Auxiliary hydraulic system Coffman engine starter Ram air turbine Uninterruptible power supply A continuous supply...

December 1938. Merlin XII (RM 3S) 1,150 hp (860 kW); fitted with Coffman engine starter; first version to use 70/30% water/glycol coolant rather than 100%...

killed himself, thinking that "blank" cartridges were harmless. Coffman engine starter "Charlie Taylor Interview: Blank Fire Guns for the Movies". Forgotten...

the film four stars out of five, calling it "a worthy remake." Coffman engine starter Lady Be Good (aircraft) Tragedy at Kufra "Box office: 'Flight Of...

the novel, although it was re-located to the Gobi Desert in Asia. Coffman engine starter Lady Be Good (aircraft) Tragedy at Kufra Liukkonen, Petri. "Elleston...

D. Coffman (born 1944), chief executive officer and Chairman of Lockheed Martin Corporation Coffman engine starter, device on an aircraft Coffman, Kentucky...

the upgraded 1,175 horsepower (876 kW) Merlin XII engine. This engine included a Coffman engine starter, instead of the electric system of earlier and some...

Air-cooled Reduction gear: Direct-drive Eclipse inertia starter or Coffman cartridge starter Power output: 310 hp (230 kW), continuous at 2,150 rpm at...

A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft...

A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston (one up and...

cooling system or carburettors, engine block construction, starting system, or arrangement of engine controls. All Merlin engines except versions 131 and 135...

combustion engine part that circulates engine oil under pressure to the rotating bearings, the sliding pistons and the camshaft of the engine. This lubricates...

mechanism by which fluid flow is managed by construction or obstruction. An engine's power can be increased or decreased by the restriction of inlet gases (by...

Manifold vacuum, or engine vacuum in a petrol engine is the difference in air pressure between the engine's intake manifold and Earth's atmosphere. Manifold...

rope (as opposed to the rope detaching) gives the recoil starter its name. (Should the engine fail to start, the stopping of the rope pull also disengages...

Monosoupape (French for single-valve), was a rotary engine design first introduced in 1913 by Gnome Engine Company (renamed Gnome et Rhône in 1915). It used...

In a reciprocating engine, the dead centre is the position of a piston in which it is either furthest from, or nearest to, the crankshaft. The former is...

propellers, apply the maximum power of usually a single engine piston powered or turboprop engine to drive a pair of coaxial propellers in contra-rotation...

provide for putting power into the engine during engine start. See also Coffman starter. Various power transmission methods were available before power take-offs...

spark-ignition engine to ignite the compressed fuel/air mixture by an electric spark, while containing combustion pressure within the engine. A spark plug...

the three types of carburetors used on large, high-performance aircraft engines manufactured in the United States during World War II, the Bendix-Stromberg...

A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors, hydraulic cylinders and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar...

Air-cooled engines rely on the circulation of air directly over heat dissipation fins or hot areas of the engine to cool them in order to keep the engine within...

is a type of valve mechanism for piston engines, distinct from the usual poppet valve. Sleeve valve engines saw use in a number of pre–World War II luxury...

In a spark ignition internal combustion engine, ignition timing is the timing, relative to the current piston position and crankshaft angle, of the release...