Reply to post: Efficiency vs Reliability

Planespotters’ weekends turn traumatic as engine pieces fall from the sky in the Netherlands and the US

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Efficiency vs Reliability

With the constant weight reduction, pressure increasing, rpm increasing trend to gain a few percentage points of fuel economy, is this the same problem we are seeing in the auto industry, reducing the longevity of engines?

I know that air travel is still very safe but there seems to have been a few incidents recently that are moving away from pilot and systems error and more into the component fatigue territory.

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