I occasionally delight and shock my non-aviation friends with short, expletive-laden descriptions of airplane engines having changed little since VE day. In some ways, they’ve gotten a little worse. “Wait, you mean they have pushrods and carburetors? How can that be true?”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/insider/can-there-be-this-many-engines