Thread: UK2 MJ772 Supermarine SpitfireT9 to N8R MesaAZ.jpg
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Old February 9th 12, 01:10 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Andrew Chaplin
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The big drip-pan reminds me of what my Dad said "British engineers are
great they just forget that the oil needs to stay in the engine."

The drive to keep our training areas clean meant that whenever we deployed,
starting in the late 1980s, we had to bring drip-pans to the weeds. A truly
astonishing number got driven over and it was a cost the unit ate, because
to discipline the drivers or detachment commanders over such things would
mean they would be left in the truck and oil would be all over the show.
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