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I'm always interested in people who blame the failure of the He177 on the DB606 engines. There was basically not much wrong with the DB606. Where the He177 went wrong - and this was admitted to by Ernst Heinkel - was how the DB606s were mounted - too rigidly and too close to the firewalls, which caused the oil system to bend too sharply which in turn caused the oil to froth and thereby failed to cool the engine effectively. When this was discovered, Heinkel wanted to temporarily cease production and put it right but the RLM stopped him from doing so. The DB606 was actually quite a good engine, apart from the mounting problems.

[QUOTE="Rickshaw, post: 368986, member: 23537"] I'm always interested in people who blame the failure of the He177 on the DB606 engines. There was basically not much wrong with the DB606. Where the He177 went wrong - and this was admitted to by Ernst Heinkel - was how the DB606s were mounted - too rigidly and too close to the firewalls, which caused the oil system to bend too sharply which in turn caused the oil to froth and thereby failed to cool the engine effectively. When this was discovered, Heinkel wanted to temporarily cease production and put it right but the RLM stopped him from doing so. The DB606 was actually quite a good engine, apart from the mounting problems. [/QUOTE]

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