But most agree that the roots of the crisis lie deeper, in an apartheid past that consigned blacks to inferior schools, drove many from their land, homes and businesses and forced millions into segregated townships and rural areas where they remain cut off from the engines of the economy.
Most designers turned to bleeding off air from the engine's compressor, and directing that through pipes arranged around the aircraft.
Thanks to the continuously variable transmission, there are no "shift points" in the gearbox, just a peak as you nail the throttle and, eventually, a tailing-off sensation from the engine compartment.
BMW has a lot of commercial ground to make up with Rolls-Royce because the name has been tarnished by years of under-investment and ownership changes that saw it hived off from the aero-engine side of Rolls-Royce, then passed on to Vickers and VW before ending up in BMW's hands.
Fuel savings come from switching off the engine while the car is coasting, braking or stopped.
Moving a short distance away from the coast and cutting off the engine was sufficient to invite the whales to come close.
We corrected guesses about its year that ranged from 1950 to 1970, and we showed off the engine, a common request, so fans could admire "the six-pack" — three 2-barrel carburetors, good for an extra 25 horsepower over the 4-barrels of non-Eldorado Cadillacs that year.
Eyewitnesses to the crash said that while the plane was still in the air one of the engines seemed to burst into flames -- they differed on whether it was the right or left engine -- and then the burning engine broke off from the wing of the plane.
On the exhaust side, a "wastegate" regulates the turbocharger's output by bleeding off some of the hot exhaust from the engine, so as to bypass the turbine wheel.
In the light of Beethoven and Byrd and poetry and lofty contemplative silence, however, the educational chatter that had filled the rest of the movie's soundtrack comes off as the essential background noise from the engine room that keeps the institution running on an even keel of rational stability.
