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Bob:<br>
Never heard that story. thanks. Also, nowadays twin engine airplanes
can maintain a safe altitude on a single engine. Or so they told me
when I got my type rating on the 757/767.<span class="moz-smiley-s4"><span>
:-P </span></span>Sure hope they weren't kidding me! Bill Glaze<br>
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Bob Richards wrote:<br>
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cite="mid20050125173429.56591.qmail@web30208.mail.mud.yahoo.com"
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<div>Bill,</div>
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<div>OTOH, remember the Rutan Voyager? Two centerline engines, the
front engine was to be shut off and feathered after it was no longer
needed. Rutan wanted to leave the electric starter off, since it would
not be needed once it left the ground. The engine maker (Teledyne?)
convinced him to keep the starter on, "just in case".</div>
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<div>Halfway around the world, a fuel managment problem caused the
rear engine to momentarily quit, and the nose-down glide prevented the
fuel pickup to draw fuel again to the rear engine. The front engine was
started again, and once level flight was established the fuel began
flowing again to the rear engine. (Best recollection of the story that
I can remember from reading Dick Rutan's book).</div>
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<div>You can never think of all the ways redundancy can pull your a**
out of the fire!!</div>
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<div>Bob R.</div>
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<b><i>Bill Glaze <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:billglaze@triad.rr.com"><billglaze@triad.rr.com></a></i></b> wrote:</div>
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those days a twin engine airplane couldn't maintain flight on just one
engine, in most cases. So, in his book, (We) Lindbergh stated that
twin engines "gave twice as much chance of an engine failure." The
only thing two engines did, was to insure that you had enough power to
make it to the crash scene.<br>
Bill Glaze</blockquote>
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