What a mixture of so many parallel things ... hard to digest the reading with history in mind. With many things said true, we do have to remember when these jet designs were done and for what purpose. During that phase of the war, fighters in WW2 were originally designed for a max lifetime of ten to twenty hours (even on Korea the US fighter jets were designed to last for 4 missions max total 25 hours), because they were thought to be shot down anyways. A 30 hours TBO is plenty of time in that light and anything more was a waste of engineering. This stuff was war material, not built to last, but designed to be built cheap in masses and disposable.
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