I noticed that on a lot of the museum displays a lot of the old biplanes were leaking some kind of liquid, oil I guess. There were catch plates and cans with oil pooling in them.
What is the story behind this?
Museum aircraft leaking liquid
Re: Museum aircraft leaking liquid
Old aircraft leak oil, especially rotaries which have a total lost oil systems
Thomas
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Just marking their territory.
Re: Museum aircraft leaking liquid
Nice little article explaining how rotary engines work.
http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/new%20site/frames/rotary%20engines_frame.htm
http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/new%20site/frames/rotary%20engines_frame.htm
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Re: Museum aircraft leaking liquid
I remember being told with old aircraft if you cannot see oil under it, there is probably no oil in it. Or as an older gentleman put it "old things leak".