On 22 Nov 2003 09:13:08 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

:From: (BllFs6)
:Date: 11/21/2003 6:47 PM Central Standard Time
:Message-id:
:
: 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?
:
ropping 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
rigionally 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?

It would violate the rules of the NAA and FAI, the groups that award
the records, or they certainly would have used drop tanks. They
didn't even drop out their - ahem - used food.