Abingdonboy
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Mate, this is the standard procedure for testing engines. You wouldn't expect ANY professional flight test certification and testing agency to strap on 4 experimental and untested prototypes and go for a spin, would you? To say this was reckless or fool hardy doesn't even cover it. There has to be layer after layer of safety and procedure where flight testing and certification is concerned- it is a long and arduous task, don't belittle the task nor draw incorrect conclusions and apply these in mis-leading logic.Kaveri was running briefly in an IL with all its engines but one running to prevent it from falling off the sky. It's like a turn on, yep, it runs, and shut it off before it blows up kind of thing. Until it can power a plane by itself, don't call it working.
And the Kaveri wasn't "running briefly on an IL" it was being run for almost a year on an IL-76.
No one said designing and building an engine would be easy, if it was everyone would do it- as they say!
Whehter the Kaveri itself is a failure or not is irrelevant because the amount of information and expertise that has been built up because of the Kaveri project is priceless and will pay dividends in any future Indian engine projects.