Its very hard to realy tell with a REAR failure its the chicken and egg - for example it lost a third of its blades the rest were bent also the rear bearing was gone - so did the turbine fail distroying the bearing or did the bearing go distroying the turbine ???? time to get it under the mag glass to see the type of fractures.

No flames or smoke came out it just stopped (baby boomer) plane was fine but the exaust cone was only held on by one bolt - the others had sheared off.

I know turbines and bearing go BUT there are many ???? marks over this engine now - very long spool up times to avoid flame outs - thrust quoted figures - highest turbine tip speed of ANY other engine (a fair bit over 1000mph - 99.9999% of other manufacturers keep it well below 1000mph for good reason). So this is just an addition to these issues. People need to know as heck I was gonna buy one I'm very glad I waited. Phil is a good engineer I've been told also people in the gtba DO feel he WILL get the engine right but people are questioning if he should be selling it until he develops it further.

All the best

Ant