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This sound like a hoax. I cannot think any pilot would fly an aircraft with a known fuel leak. A friend flying Wellingtons told me that, when given Avro Manchester bombers to fly, the whole squadron petitioned the C.O. to have the Wellingtons back. The Manchester was deadly on one engine. After only a few weeks they were withdrawn and the Squadron was given Lancasters.
An Army Captain friend was sent on a course with the RAF and he was given a flight in the turret of a Defiant. He told me how worried he was, as the pilot emphasised that he must carefully count the rotations. If he exceeded six turns in one direction the turret would screw off! I told him the same applied to the dustbin under turret on Whitley 111s. fredjhh