Nice way to start the engine

Reminds me of how I used to start my lawn mower with a drill because I was too cheap to buy a pull cord or electric start lol. Sometimes the bit would get stuck on the flywheel after the jump, and it would ricochet around my garage! 😬

this is how it feels to work on a car older than 2018

A single cylinder, five (sometimes six) litre, single cylinder, two stroke . . . Sounds like an impossibility but . . .

Well that started with a bang...

Would be a bitch if it was raining.

When we learned to fly in the '80s, our instructor took us over to a Chipmunk, @ Tune/Roskilde Airport, Denmark. He said; I learned to fly in this, you start the engine by inserting a cartridge here, push this and Bob's your uncle. Amazing.

legacy of World War II

wtf did i just watch

off with a blast!

Awesome! Clever “good old engineering”.

Every time I see an old video it makes me realize how bad we have been fucked over.

Dose it work with explosive shells too?! :))

Le moteur diesel avant la bougie de prechauffage 🤷‍♂️

:-)

I remember also from some old WWII flick that there was an aircraft that also used the same sort of tech: the crew reffed to running low on shotgun shells. Otherwise it was get out the cranks (if you could).