Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.103] (HELO ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c3) with ESMTP id 826859 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:34:02 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.103; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from [192.168.0.10] (cpe-065-187-243-074.nc.rr.com [65.187.243.74]) by ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j2RLXEL4023790 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:33:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42472693.1020801@nc.rr.com> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:33:07 -0500 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] C 182 turbo References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Barnhart wrote: > Had a shiny new C-182 Turbo "drop in" at a FBO. It had 50 hours on > it, and a price tag of $310,000. > The compressor on the turbo died, it costs $14,000 to fix. That is the > price for the compressor only, no other damage done. > > For some reason, Textron, and the owner are in disagreement as to who > should pay for the repairs....... > > Wonder how many 13bts, and 20bts you could build for $14,000? > > Barny > MGDQ 20bt 3 Well, that's not quite true. You could BUY 3 for $14K. You could BUILD 4 8*) -- This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."