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Old 27th Dec 2011, 17:52
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I seem to see some correlation in photographs between those types fitted with water injection and some decidedly smoky departures. Is there any feature of the system that causes this ? Does the fuel burn with a more smoky residue for some reason when water injection is in use ?
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