Plane Answers: JFK kid controller incident and a smoking 757

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Interesting about the smoke from the 757. On Saturday March 6 I was killing time watching planes arrive and leave the gates at Newark/Liberty while waiting to board a flight to Shanghai. A 757 was pushed back and when the starboard engine was started it smoked to the point that I thought I'd wait for the start of the port engine just to see what happened. It too smoked. I assumed it was normal but had not noticed it before except on some cold radial engines. A cold radial smokes and belches what is likely pooled oil (?). The smoke and noise is such that you think the engines have failed. When brought up to higher RPM they sound sweet.

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