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All this talk about 2.85 gear boxes, getting higher into the
power curve,
improving cliumb performance, etc, is really interesting.
Since 3 of my 6
initial reasons for going rotary were reliability, I'm
wondering what running
at these higher power levels is going to do in that
regard.
Hi
Marv,
I think it's
extremely unlikely that anyone will have a catastrophic failure of a NA
rotary below 8000 rpm. Now if you turbo it, all bets are
off. This is one of the reasons I no longer run a turbo on the
plane. I can afford to blow the FD engine, and AAA will tow it back
to my house.
You are correct about
wear though, but you have to decide what you want. I want a toy, that
makes people say "Holy S***" every time I take off. Even if it
"only" lasts 1000 hours before it wears out, that's 30 years of flying for
me. The symptoms of a worn out engine are pretty benign, so when the
time comes, I just rebuild it.
Cheers,
Rusty (anybody need a
turbo? anybody at all... <g>)
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