alarkyokie,

While working on the J-57's, we occasionally had to evacuate the engine shop and call EOD because the flight line every now and then brought an engine into the shop with the breach cap still installed. With that cap installed, there was no way to tell if the cartridge was in the cap let alone if it had been fired.

TonyC,

You only had one starter on the RC's? Would you cart start that one engine and then cross bleed to the other engines to start them? I worked the TF-33's, but only on the B-52's so I don't know the configuration of on the -135's.

The -135R/T's have generators on #1,2 and 3 engines. It only needs two generators and the third one is just for redundancy.