When traditional tractor meeting in Burkhardtsdorf is for some time always a big Russian radial engine of an Antonov case.
The course was also filmed. Since it was very cold and damp in the morning, he made some problems but start then he ran.
Typical of old radial engines is the large smoke at startup, because a greater amount of oil running in the lower cylinder,
which is then burned.
The sound was deafening as ever.
Comment:Mark Stockman: Expert? Hardly. I just happen to know enough about engines in general that with a flywheel,
if you get even one cylinder started, it can keep the crankshaft spinning until the others start to fire.
The WWI "rotary radials" used a fixed crankshaft and had the cylinders rotate around it- the engine was its own flywheel.
