CorvAircraft> Thousands of hours with no crank breakage

[Dave Morris "BigD"]

A related question might be: "Have they all actually been right on the edge 
of failing, and we just haven't known it?  Have those guys with hundreds of 
hours on their Corvair engines ever bothered to tear down their engines and 
find out if there is a microscopic crack waiting to expand if they just ran 
the engine a little harder?"

Or, as Pat suggested to me recently, 3000 engines with 1 hour each is not 
the same as a 3000 hour engine.

Dave Morris

At 12:08 PM 2/14/2006, you wrote:
>More than a valid point - Come on guys, keep asking the right
>questions......Lon
>
>Dave Morris "BigD" wrote:
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> >Have we ever addressed the reason why there is a full page of airplanes
> >http://www.flycorvair.com/planes.html that have no crank failures?  Is this
> >an RPM based problem?  I don't understand why everything was hunky dory for
> >years and all of a sudden we have a major problem.
> >
> >Dave Morris
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