I was told by those with experiance to never get on one of these unless it did leak...

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Otherwise, it too was prone to crash, as it was out of what it should be leaking - hydraulic fluid. Frieghtening to watch someone fill it back up mid-flight, and use most of a 5 gallon can.

Having sat at bars with thier mechanics, they tell me that there is some called the "cat box" on each one - it's where they keep the cat litter for the floor inside after a few hours of flight.

Anyway, it is good to know that the void is now closed and the Brit's have now come around to the old electrical-smoke theroy we have stood by in the US for so long.

Mark Heller
"Well - I oughta....." -Jackie Gleason