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Does it have a starting handle in case the Battery is flat?

25Pdr wrote:Does it have a starting handle in case the Battery is flat?

Nope.....

But the Me109 did though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sz5t-m9IOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzsJBjbCyvM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1v8EAKf4Y8

25Pdr wrote:Does it have a starting handle in case the Battery is flat?

I've worked on quite a few engines that had clock-work starters.

http://startwell.com/products/

In the Army we had 40KVA generators that you used to hand wind a lever to compress a spring - then release all that tension to kick the engine over.

Some old tractors were started with shotgun cartidges..........

I have hand started a De Havilland Beaver.

It has a 9 cylinder Pratt & Whitney Wasp radial engine and was equipped with a flywheel actuated emergency starter that you wound up to speed with a foot-long crank handle. The pilot then hit the button.

I was so knackered I nearly fell into the prop when it finally started.

Starting a Swordfish is hard work as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAqGfHlY0fU

When the Germans found difficulties in starting engines on the Russian winter front
they came up with the novel idea of "lets start a fire under it."
Suppose the idea was the liquefy the frozen oils and allow easier turnover.
As most of there kit was petrol driven wonder how they did this without blowing things up !

They were not just used on the Eastern Front

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/engineheater.htm