RE: P-120 overspeed Flameout
Interesting thread, my first P-120 (almost 10 years ago now) self destructed in flight at very low hours on the engine. Takeoff was fine but when I went to cut back on the power in the turn F/T stayed on and in fact kept increasing until the engine self destructed due to a failed bearing, jamming the compressor to stop the engine resulting in raw fuel being dumped out the back of the engine and an ensuing inflight fire which blew itself out by the time I got the thing back on the ground. This particular engine was shipped back to Germany (at their request) by Bob and resulted (I'm told) in some changes to the software at the time to prevent a reoccurence. I was told that final rpm was just under 150K.
Still running 2 - P-120 SE's.....the one I ran yesterday was running 2.4volts at 123K.