Jay

In military if you hit a prop at idle you coudl put a new prop on and
check tracking, etc and then do an oil change and fly (over field) for
several hours (5 maybe) and land and chck the screens. If nothing in
screens they would release the engine back in service.

Forget the rpm that if you exceeded then it was an engine change
(maybe 1200????).

You of course ran the engine some on ground before flying it to
determine it's condition for test flight..

So on the '17 if the engines were in idle they might get away with
just prop repairs???? and sheet metal.

Long time ago in a land far away.

Big John

On Sun, 09 May 2004 13:49:35 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Are you really worried about a catastrophic failure when you've got
3 other engines?

Are you saying that they won't have to tear down those engines?