wrote:

What about meltdowns? Because if what Bob Hoover says is true then it
seems to me there's no way Great Plains should be making a living --
unless their customers never have checked the numbers they GP claims.
GP has a lot of customers. You'd think they'd be screaming bloody
murder if they couldn't at least get close to 80 for takeoff.

I'm more concerned with thrust and cooling, though, than some HP
number.

What gives? What's "the truth"?

An 85 HP aircraft cylinder head:

http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/at/cours...arrel&head.jpg

A VW head:

http://www.allworldautomotive.com/ph...1817-15127.jpg


Charles