----- Original Message -----

From: al p wick

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:50 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Rotary risks

 

You bring up very important points. If you guys can develop robust solutions for each of the challenges, then you can end up with a powerplant that has some fabulous failure modes. Here is a great example, I suspect your ECM shutdown risk is now somewhere around 1 time in 1000 (maybe 500) hours. But with simple changes that make the system genuinely redundant, you would automatically raise that to 1 time in 1000000 hours. That is fantastic for a custom low volume ECM.