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Suddenly replacing an engine on 777 in early Feb, on Baffin Island. That's gonna take some logistics to fix, of course, as there are no spare engines nearer that the other side of the Atlantic

Since this incredibly large and incredibly powerful cargo is much wider than an average fuselage, few planes can actually transport a GE90, and finding a cargo transport Antonov takes a little while.

Making things even more difficult, the 777 was too large for the hanger available, and they had no tools for replacing the worlds largest jet engine. Plus, it was only 40 degrees F below zero. Oh, and night lasts 19 hours long.

So, a few tiny problems to over come, all because one really big engine has a failure

Thanks Maurice!

Read the whole story at http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/airlines/a25590/changing-worlds-largest-engine/

Don't you think the cars and tires and engines should be American? Isn't that what Nascar was?

Grainger and Worrall is an engineering and machining company in Telford Shropshire, England. It's near the center of England, jut west of Birmingham

They made all the engine blocks used by "Chevys and Fords" in the 2015 Daytona 500

They also make the engines for the Acura NSX, and the Aston Martin DB11, and they did the F1 engines in 2014, and the 2015 NHRA Pro-stock engines. They also make parts for the Veyron and the Mulsanne, and they make brand new heads for the Rolls Royce Merlin V12 airplane engine used in Spitfires, Mustangs, Hurricanes and the Lancaster bomber.

http://www.sbnation.com/nascar/2011/9/9/2415041/kyle-busch-nascar-american-flag-car-richmond-9-11-2011
http://www.gwcast.com/en/

Sept 2015 issue of Car and Driver, page 26

FWIW, Nascar doesn't claim to be American, or Made in the USA http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/about-nascar.html I looked, and it doesn't.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1085780994901849/

I suspect that as one thing leads to another, his contacting a lot of people about the spitfire engine had a lot to do with him getting a tv special about the following recreation of a spitfire

skip the 1st 50 seconds, lighting off a V12 Panzer engine

wow, had no idea Kissel ended up making outboards for Sears, was bought by West Bend, and then they were bought by Chrysler.

in the Wisconsin Auto Museum in Hartford, northwest of Milwaukee

http://carzhunt.blogspot.com/2016/03/six-days-on-road-day-3-part-1.html

In 1933 when J. A. Prestwich (J.A.P.) of Tottenham England, was soundly winning on the speedway tracks, Harley bought a JAP motor like this, and made their own version, retaining the Amal carb and Lucas magneto, according to Anibal