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Originally Posted by DAEpperson
Can you imagine how much oil those very old radials must have leaked?
WWI engines were rotary engines. Radials came later on. The early rotaries didn't leak oil. They burned it. Oil was a consumable. That's why they wore scarves. Too mitigate the ingestion of the castor oil.

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