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Old 13th Dec 2019, 18:43
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The Sultan
 
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We never got beyond the test bench stage. No technology issues. Just cost and weight impacts were unacceptable.
CTR,

So you don’t know if Brinelling would be an issue as bench test would never yield the aircraft vibratory environment (the whole bolted to Mother Earth thing).
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