Dan,
I have a suggest for you, hire another "Design Team" if they can't figure out what they are looking at after dissecting apart a turbine. Coming to RCU for advice is the most preposterous thing an Engineer or head of a "Design Team" could do. I have a suggestion, why doesn't your "Design Team" actually design something on their own, spend some of your government grant money on a thing called Research & Development or R&D for short, instead of trying to steal another manufacturers technology? Seriously, coming on RCU looking for answers on such rudimentary questions like does the bearings come in contact with fuel? When your top designer took apart the turbine did he find a wet sump system with cooling radiators to lubricate the bearings? Geesshhh....
Ghostrider1 out!!