Here’s a whole pile of Youtube clips, some of the many I’ve found interesting, of old airplanes starting up and flying.
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| Boeing C-97. The smokescreen capability was a built-in feature. | Fairchild C-123. |
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| Lancaster Bomber. There were a few passenger aircraft powered by the Merlin engines, but they didn’t have a long service life (see if you can guess why) | Another of the Bristol Frightner, this is apparently quite a recent clip. |
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| DHC-4 Caribou. The Australian Airforce had a dozen or more of these, they just retired the last one a year ago. | The Pommie white elephant, with eight radial engines it must have been extremely noisy. |
