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Old 11th Feb 2016, 06:20
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OKX flew most of the way back to shore (about 80 nm as I recall with nothing but emergency lube. When Jimmy decided to put it in the water it was still running fine but very hot.

In my Beaufort example I was only about 10 minutes out so we just turned around and came back to Tuk (~20 min total). I'll find some other examples tomorrow.

As much as I love the 61 and have great respect for it, in a loss of MGB oil I'll take a 139 any day.
No doubt, she is a fine rocket - but she ain't "run dry" either - which was my point from the very beginning. See post #105.
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