ORIGINAL: earlwb
That is good to know. But if they have defective engines it makes one wonder how they made it out to the customer then.
I knew Eric Clutton test runs the engines to be sure though.
Define 'defective' in this context.
Perhaps anything that achieves 10 000 rpm - isn't, anything that doesn't - is.
Kind of a silly line in the sand to draw when almost every engine in their range should be well capable of far more than this.
Imean, would you buy a high revving combat special that can only hit 10 000 rpm safe in the knowledge that it has passed their standards test?
Far better would be an actual recorded reading dated and signed, and with useful stuff like the prop used, fuel etc (just like a certain Australian Team race engine builder used to do.)