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Weren’t those big blocks on the starter cart Buicks?


They were initially Buicks, then Chevy later on [1]

[1] https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Engines/starting-t...


That was a great read, thank you. TIL about TEB, and how at one point they were investigating coal slurry as a fuel? (Although tbh that sounds like someone having fun on Wikipedia).


You can hear the starter cart in some of the YouTube videos, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFO--wzFfUs - it really gets going around the two minute mark.




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