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Old 22nd Sep 2023, 21:14
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Originally Posted by sandringham1
Had an oil filled capacitor go pop once, the oil mist that it emitted was just like smoke and gone in a few seconds. It was an open cockpit.
My old flght instrctr thought it may have been some oil from the so-called "leak" dropping on some hot and evaporating.
I reacall taking the key out of the ignition expecting it to be both blackkend and hot, but was surprised to see it was neither
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