Have you pull started your Me 262 lately?

[RicOShay]

  Can't start your Me262-------------------------------what's a mother to do?!!


http://airpigz.com/blog/2009/2/9/have-you-pull-started-your-me-262-lately.html

[Bodhi]

Very cool.

[EagleDNY]

OK - here is a question I want to know.

Once you have pull-started that little lawnmower engine in the nacelle, and once that has spun up the jet engine and fired up that turbine....
how to turn reach in and turn off that lawnmower engine without something really bad happening to you?

[W7LPNRICK]

Short time TBO was d/t most likely the compressors burning up & having one disintegrate in a running engine is really a bad thing. 

[GScholz]

The 262 and its engines were literally made from scrap in some forest clearing in Germany. The very low TBO was from the lack of advanced metals, so the turbines were made from simple steel.

The small two-stroke starter motors were also a serious hazard when ditching. The small gasoline tanks would invariably explode on impact, resulting in a catastrophic fire.