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Posts #22 & 23.
Thanks chaps. The other slightly puzzling aspect was the throttle control. All I could find out was that the engine basically ran continuously at maximum revs and the pilot controlled power when landing by "blipping" a cut-out switch to the spark plugs.
The lubricating system used castor oil or similar I believe, and so apart from having to suffer a fairly common problem with "piles" from sitting in a hard seat at high altitudes, pilots of the Camel had to put up with being doused in the escaping castor oil, which undoubtedly had the same effect on their bodies at 15,000 feet that it would on the ground.
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