Originally Posted by
Shanewhite
Bump......
That brings a question to mind. Under service conditions, how long would it have taken to remove and replace an engine, and how often would it have been done?
I was curious as well, and hoping somebody with practical experience would post an answer.
Also, would the same engines have stayed with each airframe, or would they have "circulated" around the fleet?
The engines
were interchangeable among the airframes. Just as well, really, otherwise it would have meant keeping a stock of spare engines for each aircraft !
A more practical issue was that the engines were "handed", so that if a "left-handed" engine failed and you had only "right-handed" engines in stock, you had a problem.....
There is a nice interesting chapter in the Olympus 593 manual on how to convert a "left-handed" engine into a "right-handed" one (it mostly involved moving auxiliaries and other connections from one side to the other), but it was work, and took time. More time than a 'simple' engine change .....
CJ