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Originally Posted by Al Schlageter
You seem like an intelligent lad, so why do you have so much trouble understanding that it wasn't the increase in boost but the loss of the prop blade that hurt the engine. The airscrew became unbalanced after loosing a blade and caused vibrations that shook the engine apart.
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Yes but it lost the blade because the airscrew could not absorb the added
power, it may go over to the engine via blade damage but the source of damage is the boost...
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Originally Posted by Al Schlageter
Why did you even post the words of NZ pilot F/O Ronald Dennis of 56 Sqn then? Also note the use of the word 'all', that is more than one a/c using 13lb boost. There was 3 squadrons in 150 Wing.
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Because they showed that SabreIIb couldn't bear the burden of higher boost, so the did change to Rotol airscrew, but he mentions not if that was a succsess or another failure, we don't know.
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Originally Posted by Al Schlageter
Produce the document that the K-4 used 2.02 ata operationally.
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Why should I? I don't believe that myself anyway, same way I don't believe in +13lbs Tempest used operationally