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Old 9th Mar 2010, 15:00
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IO540
 
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What are the requirements to get engine certification?
You would be suprised. Very suprised.

Theilerts they need a few years to prove themselves with hard use by the schools. The trouble is I am not sure how many they are selling into the schools at the moment - probably not a lot.
I think a school would be after an uptime contract with liquidated damages, to bend over the same barrel again

Anyway, their sales are very low now. I saw some figs the other day - about 30 in 2009.
On the plus side at least the rest of the systems are now pretty well proven and the pitfalls are well known.
Yes, it's a nice plane. Very classy.

They need to thicken the tin on the tinplate brackets a little... Attention to detail is very cheap... but most don't know how to do it. In my business, we pay say 20p for a moulding. Most people would stick a 5p label on it. We stick a high quality 40p label on it - it sets it apart in quality (and doesn't come off when the sun shines on it Diamond need to learn that.

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