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Old 15th Mar 2015, 22:18
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And of course aircraft engines run at far higher power settings for much longer than a car engine does. At take off it runs at full power from near-cold for quite a long time. So even if it was as well engineered as a car engine (it's not - it's crude old technology) it would be less reliable.
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