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Old 24th September 2009 | 17:39
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Dan Winterland
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From: Blighty
It went out of the centre main and rear turbine bearing seals - the hot bits. It had micro pumps to limit the loss. The Viper was a very early engine (1953)and they hadn't worked out how to seal them at that time. And with the Viper's fuel consumption, you were never going to run out of oil before you ran out of fuel!

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