To: Spktyr
I'm pretty sure that an Airbus equivalent wouldn't fare nearly as well with one engine out. It would not have gotten FAA certification for operations with four engines if it could not operate with one engine shut down. A four engined plane does not require as much reserve power as a twin engined plane does. Any aircraft is required to be able to takeoff if one engine shuts down during takeoff.
22 posted on
03/07/2005 5:23:37 PM PST by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
To: Paleo Conservative
I didn't say that it would have crashed if the engine failed in flight, I just said that it wouldn't have done as well.
Remember, these things are controlled by French computers running French code. Sure, it probably passed the FAA certification tests, but do *you* want to trust a Frog computer to not suddenly decide that you're in-flight instead of taking off and cut power? I don't.
27 posted on
03/07/2005 5:27:47 PM PST by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Paleo Conservative
Any aircraft is required to be able to takeoff if one engine shuts down during takeoff. Really? What about one-engined planes? |>]
98 posted on
03/07/2005 7:11:17 PM PST by
LibertarianInExile
(The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
To: Paleo Conservative
>>Any aircraft is required to be able to takeoff if one engine shuts down during takeoff.<<
Ahhhh. . .explain that, please. (Decision-speed, abort speed, continuation speed, take-off Cat I, II, II. . .etc.
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