re: #132 Targetpractice

And their maintenance upkeep? Maximum power output doesn’t tend to be a recipe for long engine life.

Well, obviously the engine is designed to run at higher power output, rather than being designed to cruise at 25-odd percent like a typical direct-drive automobile engine. A good place to start looking would be general aviation piston engines, which rarely operate at less than 75% power or so. Curiously, I don’t often see light aircraft falling out of the sky.

This isn’t feeling like a terribly fact-based discussion.