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While visiting Chino Planes of Fame, I followed a 70 something aeronautical engineer (neat guy) who explained that the move to jet was inspired as much by their LACK of complexity than by their power. Apparetnly the big radial could only go 500 hours without a total overhaul, vs. 4000 hours with the EARLY jet engines. If he can be believed....
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David
1972 911T/S MFI Survivor
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