Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #23285
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: rotary risks. MTBE and the gospel ...
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:00:59 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Jim Sower wrote:


In general, how many single points of failure did he start out with, how many remain and how did he remediate the ones he has fixed?  What, if anything, is he doing to address the rest, or why do they "not count"?


This may or may not be more to the point, but if parts count isn't a measure of reliability, then how does increasing parts count increase reliability?  That is, how do you determine if a redundant system will improve things, make them worse, or just make the plane so heavy that it won't fly?  (which is fairly safe, but sort of counterproductive 8*)

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