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by jcims 2006 days ago
Were they able to fully fabricate an engine in house (save for commodity parts)? Does simulation do a reasonable job of wear prediction?
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Yes, mostly in house except for specialty materials, high labor components, etc, similar to the workflow at many small hardware firms with machine shops. We just had more combustion involved than your average hardware company.

The compact dimension of the demonstrator engines make that kind of agile development possible--similar to the idea behind Boom's scale demonstrator.

Awesome, thanks for the reply!