Originally Posted by
sinsilvia666
Our gate is next to AirTrans and when they push out or roll in I always see a stream of low pressure smoke coming out from the center of the bottom of the engines. Just curious what this was... thanks !
It's a Rolls Royce engine (with BMW .. BR715) and ALL Rolls engines seem to smoke on start up. Unfortunate you were not around to see Eastern and TWA start up their RB-211s at LGA.. in cold wx, the airplane would vanish in the start up smoke.