Originally Posted by
scrapdog
Amazing how very wrong you are. The PW or the GE series engines of late on F-16's are extremely reliable. The days of continuous engine problems on the F-16 are many years old. The GE models are amazingly stable - much more so than the PW -100 engines on the F-15C's.
Yeah, that's why JSF is going single engine too. Engines are so reliable now that they can say that it will be cheaper (because it always comes down to money) to have a single engine aircraft, even if they know they will lose
some aircraft due to engine failures, than it would to pay for the extra engines, systems, maintenance, etc, on a dual engine aircraft.
BTW, I lost an engine over Iraq a few years ago because of a bad oil pump, luckily I had another. You can show me all the statistics in the world that these new engines are more reliable than the two I have now, and I'll agree every day and twice on Sunday as long as I'm day, VFR, and in CONUS. Put me in bad weather, at night, over bad guy country, and I want two engines!!