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Typical Tristar Startup - This Smokey?  
User currently offlineGF-A330 From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2001, 1643 posts, RR: 3
Posted (11 years 7 months 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 726 times:


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Looks like someone needs to dial 999 !!

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User currently offlineGF-A330 From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2001, 1643 posts, RR: 3
Reply 1, posted (11 years 7 months 4 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 674 times:

I don't know about you guys, but this is the first pic i've seen of a tristar with a smokey start up, this bad.

What causes the smokey start up anyway ?

User currently offlineTom in NO From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 7194 posts, RR: 40
Reply 2, posted (11 years 7 months 4 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 651 times:

Tri-Star's are noted for their smoky engine startups. The picture above does show it well. I believe it has something to do with oil burnoff? or something like that.

BTW: does dialing 999 in the UK mean the same thing as dialing 911 here in the US?

Tom in NO (at MSY)


"The criminal ineptitude makes you furious"-Bruce Springsteen, after seeing firsthand the damage from Hurricane Katrina
User currently offlineA380 From Canada, joined Dec 2000, 658 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (11 years 7 months 4 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 633 times:

does dialing 999 in the UK mean the same thing as dialing 911 here in the US?
- Correct.

User currently offlineWoodsboy From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 1015 posts, RR: 3
Reply 4, posted (11 years 7 months 4 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 598 times:

This a pretty smokey startup, it must have been cold! I think the smoke is uncombusted and vaporized fuel, you get smoke on other aircraft as well, most noteably anything with those wonderful RB-211s. 757s can have a pretty smokey startup, the colder it is outside, the more smoke it seems.

User currently offlineBoeingmd82 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 235 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (11 years 7 months 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 579 times:

Whoa! I've watched several ATA L1011 startups and never saw anything like that!

BMD82

User currently offlineBraniff Place From Australia, joined Sep 2001, 1125 posts, RR: 4
Reply 6, posted (11 years 7 months 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 576 times:

A quote from an Eastern Alirlines official: "The tristar is the most quietest, cleanest airplane in the sky."
What a load of crap.
 Big grin BN Place
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