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I remember how grubby the Wyton Canberra fleet used to get with their cartridge start systems throwing black smoke over the fuselage ahead of the wing and around the exhaust ports on the engine nacelles. The example below is actually quite clean. Speaking of which I still have some of the litre tin of MEK that was used to clean airframes given me by a Wyton liney in the early '90s left. A bit like Tamiya extra thin cement, but evaporates much faster, especially if the cap of the can isn't replaced immediately after refilling a 20 year old Humbrol bottle.

 

Gotta love the guy's hand casually hanging out of the DV port.

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9 hours ago, CANicoll said:

I'd say she's had her finger on the trigger for more than a little while there!  I wonder how much that impacted visibility on the windscreen.  In this photo, looks pretty dirty!

 

More than likely thoroughly cleaned before each mission.

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