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To: Sarcazmo

Three hours flying on one engine.

Pretty spiffy.


19 posted on 12/31/2022 6:38:48 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

I would have been sweating like a whore in church.

I hate flying.


20 posted on 12/31/2022 6:41:30 PM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: texas booster

‘Tis a fact that the old DC-3 airliner had to demonstrate that it could TAKE OFF fully loaded with one engine dead, and from the highest airport in American Airlines’ system, before American would buy the airplane. It could and did.

What’s impressive today is the rarity of inflight failures of modern jet engines. Thousands of them in the air at any given moment, and if one has to be shut down it gets global news coverage. Thank the engineers at GE, Roll-Royce, and Pratt & Whitney for a job well done.


34 posted on 12/31/2022 8:18:03 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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