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Why every pilot smelled of castor oil

This is a sample post so the blog isn't empty on day one — replace it with Skyring's first real dispatch.

The rotary engines of the early war spun their whole crankcase with the propeller, and the only lubricant that would stay put was castor oil — flung backwards in a fine mist, straight into the pilot's face for hours at a time. The consequences were exactly what your grandmother would predict.