radial engines and turbines

Subject: Differences Between A Radial Engine And A Jet Engine

   Round engines are commonly known as Radial engines. The piston Jugs
are placed in a circle. Hence "Round" engines. Turbine engines are known as Jet engines. We gotta get rid of those turbines, they're ruining aviation and our hearing...

A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery. The air travels through it in a straight line and doesn't pick up any of the pungent fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat. Anybody can start a turbine.
   You just need to move a switch from "OFF" to "START" and then remember to move it back to "ON" after a while. My PC is harder to start. Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse and style. You have
   to seduce it into starting. It's like waking up a horny mistress. On some planes, the pilots aren't even allowed to do it... Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a lady-like poof and start whining a little louder.

   Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click, BANG, more rattles, another BANG, a big macho FART or two, more clicks, a lot
more smoke and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like that. It's a GUY thing...

   When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can concentrate on the flight ahead. Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan: Useful, but, hardly exciting.

When you have started his round engine successfully your Crew Chief looks up at you like he'd let you kiss his girl, too! Turbines don't break or catch fire often enough, which leads to aircrew boredom, complacency and inattention. A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it's going to blow any minute. This helps concentrate the mind.

Turbines don't have enough control levers or gauges to keep a pilot's attention. There's nothing to fiddle with during long flights.

Turbines

smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman Lamps. Round engines smell like God intended machines to smell.

Pass this on to a WWII guy (or his son, or anyone who flew them, ever) in remembrance of that "Greatest Generation".
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My 2 cents worth.

We absolutely did fly in the best of wing the flapping times. We got to put tail

draggers on a straight deck carrier, even at night, We flew IFR on the GRAB airways using sectionals and used a low freq coffee
grinder (with no bird dog pointing the way) as we rode the beam snd made PTA reports to a FAA ground station that had no radar to guide you.

Then we got to fly blow jobs that were dumb ass simple compared to the high torque radials that took lots of trimming and we had no autopilots. Then we got to try the

tricycled hard to ground loop turbo prop machines and they were great too.

A zero zero GCA approach was a good way to come in. And there were

those night rotating beacons helping to show the way.

We did do some things in the flying machines the present day jocks would find hard to believe.
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Radial engines and turbines (some comments by Frank Bonansinga)