I remember waiting to get on a DC-6 at the Dayton OH airport and looking out the window there was a Connie that had just started the engines and they were idling, then one of the bottom cylinders would load up with fuel and there would be a big explosion and a big cloud of smoke and the prop would make a couple fast turns and then back to idle. Same thing happened with a Stearman at a flying breakfast I went to years ago. Sad thing about that was that as he was getting to pull on the taxiway from the grass one of the tires dropped in a hole at the edge of the hard surface and it was enough to let the prop hit the concrete and it bent the tip of one of the blades and there was someone there from the FAA and they wouldn't let him leave until the prop was repaired.
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