I can't believe many of the responses I read. It's like you guys don't read or don't comprehend the original post. What I read is, that the engine was faulty from the very beginning, and could in no way have been run by BME prior to shipping. Yes, John Leigh ran the engine on the ground, on the plane, in periods of 3 minutes. Don't tell me you guys run a new engine for less than 3 minutes in a plane before getting airborne. For Christ sake, the guy couldn't get the engine running right, that's why it never got airborne. Nowhere does he say that he ran the engine WOT for 3 minutes. He says it started to sag after 3 min, to me that means something different. IMHO, BME is really not improving on their product or service image, by letting this guy down this way. The guy is across the other side of the world, shipping back and forth is expensive and time consuming, should we as modellers really only buy domestic manufactured engines, because we WILL HAVE to ship it, even when brand new? This is just another confirmation why I'm a DA guy.
DKjens