Big John wrote in message . ..
Dillon

The J-79 in the F-104 was great when it ran and a piece of crap when
it didn't which it didn't on numerous occasions.

Sounds like a 2 stroke, high power/weight... when it works.

They put a pair of them in the F-4 and every one knows how that bird
performed.

Big John

So would this be an example of the when the whole is greater than the
sum of its parts? You might say even the whole is the product (of the
reliabilities) of the parts.