From: (BllFs6)
Date: 11/21/2003 6:47 PM Central Standard Time
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He elected to fly a single engine for the simple reason he couldn't see
dragging a second engine if one failed.


which brings up an interesting concept....

a twin engine plane where you can dump/drop the bad engine when it quits
working....


certainly not a trivial thing......but with modern explosive bolts and/or
other
clever mechanical means ya never know.....

dumping a bad engine over land or near the airport probably NOT worth the
bother....

Being able to drop a bad engine halfway across crossing the ocean....probably
more worth considering.....

take care

Blll


I wonder if Burt Rutan considered dropping one of voyager engines at some
point
in the voyager flight?

Dropping an engine would tend to mess up one's center of gravity a tad.

The only case I can see where it might work would be in the Ju-52(3M). It
origionally flew with only the nose engine. I guess punching off the outboards
might not mess up things too bad unless you are on the ground an catch one.

The question is why throw away a few kilodollars worth of perfectly good
engine?

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired