"Gord Beaman" ) wrote:
wrote:

The question remains, how long can an CF-18 (or other contemporary
twin-engined fighters) operate on a single engine? Until it runs out
of gas?

I'm having trouble understanding your question Mike...are you
suggesting that some twins can't do that?...if that's so then
what's the point of adding a second engine?.

Question answered already Gord, (see below...)

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From: Ed Rasimus
Subject: P-51 question.
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military
Date: 2003-08-22

As for how long the listed aircraft can fly on one engine, I brought
an F-4E with one engine shut-down due to a fire light home from the
NVN/Laos border near Sam Neue, through an aerial refueling and back to
Thailand where I recovered at Udorn. I cleaned the airplane off (the
tanks had already been jettisoned earlier in the mission, and the
racks went when the engine got shut down,) it it flew quite
comfortably.

No F-5 experience, but in simulated single engine flight, the T-38 was
equally comfortable. The service ceiling dropped to around 20,000
feet, but it flew well and was quite capable of single engine
approaches and go-arounds without a lot of heavy breathing. Never shut
an engine down in flight in more than 1400 hours of Talon time.

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-Mike Marron