I personally think that perhaps a FWF should be first
broken into areas such as:  Engine Mount.  PSRU.  Engine. Ignition.
Fuel
System, etc.  Then perhaps a set of common criteria for each section
such as
1. Soundness of Design 2. Reliability 3.  Fail safe/graceful
considerations
or what ever makes sense and can be judged. Perhaps there should also
be an
"Innovation factor" for extra points?   No doubt subjective will still
be
there in the judging, but this would help.  So send me any suggestions
and
I'll try to organize and pull it all together and then present it to
the
list for comments.

Cooling system design. On this point I can see a good reason to judge
the engineering calculations that went into the system design.

Cheers,
David

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