Hi gang,
I was mulling over the idea of warm up times for starship power plants and I
came to the following thoughts:
Warm up time is going to be highly dependant on the size, age, and maintenance
record of the power plant in question. Larger, older, and less maintained
power plants are going to take longer to come on line than a smaller, newer,
well maintained power plant.
I think of my 77 Plymouth Volare station wagon. It has a "slant 6" engine in
it, a medium size, very reliable motor. Because it is old and its previous
owner didn't take very good care of it, it tends to be a little
cantankerous in the morning. A freind of mine has a souped up Chevy (size of
motor unknown, just very souped!) and because it is a complex beasty it
doesn't want to start on any but the nicest day and it complains at that!
What is my point? I am just trying to say that you really can't have a hard
fast set of rules about starships run up times. I think a great deal of
flexibility has to be applied to the question.
Pete
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