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Old 17th Mar 2005, 15:06
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ShyTorque

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Because it involves carrying water that might not be used - at 10lbs weight per imperial gallon.

I've often thought that certain heavy lifting helis could use the water/alcohol windscreen washer fluid as required to:

A) Boost engine power for certain flight regimes / tasks.

B) Carry out a self compressor wash, to save the balls-ache of having the engineers come out at the end of the day to do it for us.

Or, C) If all else fails, wash the windscreens.
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