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Old 10th Jul 2003, 16:24
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CamelPilot
 
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You are right. The Clerget Camel was a bit special, and very very interesting to fly. It only accumulated around 9 hours of actual flight time before it was sold, or given, to the Brooklands Museum.

Sadly, I hear, it was the subject of a taxi error recently and the prop hit the ground. The resulting splinters punctured various parts of the fabric.

Not very good for the engine either. They only had a life of 50 hours!
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