Worth noting that both flights, to and from visiting my family and with 2 different airlines were delayed to the point where I missed connections and got stranded overnight someplace. I've missed an entire day at home and a day of work thanks to airline delays.

I'm no expert but, the sharknoses at least had larger order numbers and longer service lives than the centipedes. The bottom line failure for BLWs diesels was that they ultimately failed to keep the company solvent past the end of steam