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Old 25th Jan 2017, 10:05
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macdo
 
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Flew several thousand hours on V25A1 and CFM.
V25 was generally unreliable in service and always 'felt' fragile.
Met a design engineer at a party years ago who had been involved with the hot section.
His comment " yeah, I think we were trying to be too clever with that engine"
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