:-)
Sounds like the Jet Provost Mk3 that I did my basic training on. From idle it
could take something like 13 seconds to wind up to full power. It was best to
keep the power up on finals in case of the need to go around . . .
Chris
On 6 Nov 2011, at 13:06, Chris Trask wrote:
>
> The T-57 (?) engines in the A-37 were a vast improvement over the
> original Continental centrifugal compressor engine of the T-37 trainer. That
> engine was awful. You advanced the throttle and waited as the shear weight
> of the cast compressor disk took forever to rev up. You had to think well
> ahead.
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