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Originally Posted by Crumpp
As for for the "engine parts" conforming during operation, that is normal for all engines. In fact it is called the "break in"!! 
No engineer looked at a part on the assembly line that would destroy the engine and said "keep churning em out boys!! We can win the war with our airplanes that won't fly". |
This just proves your ignorance. Please go and google the Packard-Merlin seizure problem on Spitfires. You'll find out that what you said didn't happen, did,
exactly, they kept churning them out. Or google the sudden loss of Magnetos problem, same thing, kept building them with the fault until they located the fault, seems like it was almost Standard Operating Procedure..
The piston problem resulted in a full engine failiure, not some 'bent within acceptable amounts" push rods.
Jeez there's even a painting of it happening showing Henshaw bailing out of a Spitfire... A painting..
You apply modern standards to WW2 situations, without even bothering to look to see what actually happened.