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Comment by WalterBright

Yup. Piston aircraft engines indeed need tons of maintenance. A huge number of moving parts coupled with trying to minimize the weight and maximize the power is the cause.

In WW2 the Germans fitted aircraft engines to their tanks, which worked great when the engines ran, but too often they didn't due to battlefield conditions. (Germany was also terribly short of avgas, which crippled those tanks.)

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