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John Cole

July 28, 2015 06:13PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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My dad was a flight engineer with 25,000 hours on C97s. (not hard to do as slow as they flew...) He said those old Pratt 4360's would burn so much oil that on many long overseas trips in the Pacific they would have to turn around because they were low on oil. They worked out a mod that had a 55 gal tank of oil in the fuselage that they could hand pump oil into the wing tanks when they got low.

Condensation trail? How about oil smoke trail across the sky....

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NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Dave Peterson	July 27, 2015 04:04PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	John Cole	July 27, 2015 04:29PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	bcp	July 27, 2015 04:32PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Dave Peterson	July 27, 2015 06:38PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Tom Moungovan	July 27, 2015 06:44PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Dave Peterson	July 27, 2015 07:24PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Bill Pratt	July 27, 2015 08:52PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	guymonmd	July 27, 2015 07:59PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Dan Markoff	July 27, 2015 09:47PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Dave Peterson	July 27, 2015 10:06PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	John Cole	July 27, 2015 11:27PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Dave Peterson	July 28, 2015 06:50AM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	GeorgeGaskill	July 28, 2015 04:40PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Dave Peterson	July 28, 2015 04:54PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	John Cole	July 28, 2015 06:13PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Tom Moungovan	July 28, 2015 07:57PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Scooter Davis	July 28, 2015 07:51AM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	CraigjP	July 28, 2015 03:31PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Greg Scholl	July 28, 2015 03:45PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	nedsn3	July 28, 2015 04:07PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Dave Peterson	July 28, 2015 04:42PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Dave Peterson	July 28, 2015 04:34PM
Re: NNG or SG: Touring with vintage aircraft	Scooter Davis	July 28, 2015 04:38PM

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