Ok so we know that there are confirmed luddites on this forum. A FADEC could fail, Magnetos could and have failed, Re the mooney sadly in October 2004. Or the Aeronca champ in August 2006. Not everything can be foreseen it’s only Diamond that fit the ECU backup battery and that’s good enough for EASA, LBA, Austro Control and even the FAA.
192kts in a handcrafted piece of Texan aluminium?
It’s taken the USA's finest nearly 50 Years to achieve this.
Lets face it when Hugo Junkers built the first metal skinned aircraft back in the 20's people said it would never work, it’s a bad idea, it will never last. Diesel power is still relatively new technology in aviation and no amount of testing can foresee all the problems. It takes a bold manufacturer to develop a completely new product and only when it’s right do the other manufacturers jump on the bandwagon ala Cessna. But then again that a 1940’s airframe with 21’st century engine.
Even Cessna have had to buy Columbia to keep up with Europe.
Smarthawke, the pumps are not the standard pump fitted to the Merc, TAE do modify them, and at cruse the engine is turning around 3500 Rpm / 2100 prop and flat out at 100% its running at 3800 Rpm / 2300 prop.