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Re: Engineering question (DB engines)
Posted by Skip on Fri Apr 25, 2003 07:52:47 PM
In reply top Re: Engineering question (DB engines) posted by Mike Henniger on Fri Apr 25, 2003 02:54:29 PM
There are companies out there making replacement parts for the Merlin engine, and working on getting them FAA approved. With these parts, as long as there are servicable (or for that matter repairable) crankcases, banks, heads, and a few other large parts, there will be Merlin powered aircraft in the skies.
: Eventually the large number of Merlin
: powered survivors will wearout (beyond repair) their orig
: inal equipment power plants. As this happens the number o
: f spare Merlins goes down, the value of a Merlin goes up,
: and so does the potential revenues for an engine manufactu
: rer to produce working replicas. It is not really a matte
: r of "if" but rather "when" in my opinion.