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Originally Posted by James Brown
Also, these engines use a lot of oil, 100 gallon oil tanks per engine good for 6-8 hours of flight. fuel truck size refulers serviced the tanks. many times they land just for oil and not fuel! funny. Big tolerances in air cooled engines
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We would stock pile 55 gallon oil drums for FIFI appearances at the Kzoo air shows back in the 80's...really amazing they use to keep whole squadrons running day to day.