RU ok wrote in message . ..

Who is left with a reputation of converting and selling hundreds
of VW engines that yield PROVEN equal reliability, performance
at a significantly lower overall LONG TERM cost than suitably
rebuilt aircraft engines... like the 65 hp Continental, for example?

Nobody, if you 'axe' me.

And how many hundreds of Lycosaurs were around in, say, 1930 that
would yield PROVEN reliable performance? You have to start somewhere
if you want to improve things. Ambling down the same dusty path to
the same dead end isn't going to get you to your destination, unless
you are satisfied going where you have already been. Matter of fact
some claim that making the same mistake over and over is the
definition of stupidity - or insanity (neither of which I think wholly
applies in your case because I think you are quite satisfied to dwell
in the recent past comfortated by the benign acceptance of things as
they are).

RU ok wrote in message . ..

Barnyard BOb - over 50 years of successful flight

Which means exactly "Squat". In the bell curve of life some are going
to reach this milestone through nothing more than dumb luck. That
just a simple statistical fact.

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Leon McAtee.................looking for the end of the rainbow