Originally Posted by
Min Fuel
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.
The old L1011 engines were a sight. To quote Austin Power's "It's a man baby!"