DEDICATED TO ALL WHO FLEW BEHIND ROUND ENGINES

We gotta get rid of those turbines, they're ruining aviation
and our hearing...

A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery. The air travels
through it in a straight line and doesn't pick up any of
the pungent fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat.

Anybody can start a turbine. You just need to move a switch from
"OFF" to "START" and then remember to move it back to "ON"
after a while. My PC is harder to start.

Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse and style. You
have to seduce it into starting. It's like waking up a horny mistress.
On some planes, the pilots aren't even allowed to do it...

Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a lady-like
poof and start whining a little louder.

Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click, BANG,
morerattles, another BANG, a big macho FART or two,
more clicks, a lot more smoke and finally a serious low pitched
roar. We like that. It's a GUY thing...

When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can
concentrateon the flight ahead.
Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan: Useful,
but, hardly exciting.

When you have started his round engine successfully your crew
chief looks up at you like he'd let you kiss his girl too!

Turbines don't break or catch fire often enough, leading to aircrew
boredom, complacency and inattention.
A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it's going to blow
any minute. This helps concentrate the mind !

Turbines don't have enough control levers or gauges to keep a
pilot's attention. There's nothing to fiddle with during long flights.

Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman Lamps.
Round engines smell like God intended machines to smell.

Pass this on to an old WWII pilot (or his son who flew them in
Vietnam) in remembrance of that
"Greatest Generation"


-Sam