{"id":11670,"date":"2012-12-12T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T01:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=11670"},"modified":"2023-02-01T07:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:12:06","slug":"air-minded-get-your-motor-runnin-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=11670","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded Addendum: Hucks Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More on the Hucks starter I described in an <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=11563\">earlier entry<\/a>. One of the aircraft at the Pima Air &amp; Space Museum, a Japanese WWII fighter, &nbsp;used this starting method. When I was at the museum today I took a photo of the prop spinner so you could see the boss they&#8217;d hook the Hucks starter to in order to crank the engine.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"12-12-12_7 by halfmind, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/8268285902\/sizes\/l\/in\/set-72157629246567456\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"click to view full sized image on Flickr\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8495\/8268285902_585589cdc4.jpg\" alt=\"12-12-12_7\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hucks starter boss on a Nakajima KI-43-IIB Hayabusa (Falcon) at the Pima Air &amp; Space Museum (photo: Paul Woodford)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I mentioned before, the Japanese used Hucks starters well into WWII, as did the Soviets. Here&#8217;s a vintage photo of a Japanese Hucks starter unit used to crank then engines of medium bombers.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Jap-IsuzuHucksStarter by halfmind, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/8268706974\/sizes\/z\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"click to view full sized image on Flickr\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8499\/8268706974_a9e8b88ff5.jpg\" alt=\"Jap-IsuzuHucksStarter\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isuzu Hucks starter with Mitsubishi G4M &#8220;Betty&#8221; medium bomber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you, like me, can&#8217;t get enough Hucks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagewings.ca\/VintageNews\/Stories\/tabid\/116\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/381\/language\/en-CA\/The-Moment--First-Hucks-Start-in-70-Years.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>. Warning: link contains serious gearhead pR0n; don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?page_id=14450\"><strong> back to the Air-Minded Index<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on the Hucks starter I described in an earlier entry. One of the aircraft at the Pima Air &amp; Space Museum, a Japanese WWII fighter, &nbsp;used this starting method. When I was at the museum today I took a photo of the prop spinner so you could see the boss they&#8217;d hook the Hucks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,3,64,14],"tags":[1086,1084,1085],"class_list":["post-11670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-flying","category-history","category-military","tag-betty","tag-hucks-starter","tag-oscar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11670"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32782,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions\/32782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}