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"Tony Volk" wrote:

The Tu-160 is perfectly capable of taking off with one engine, it has
much more excess thrust than the B-1. In fact, there's a true story of a
U.S. official (can't remember who, but some big-whig) coming to watch a
Tu-160 take off (shortly after Iron Curtain fell). The crew couldn't start
one of their engines, so they just took off without it on and still gave an
impressive performance. So it must have been something more than just a
simple engine failure (e.g., control failure, catastrophic engine failure,
etc.).

Tony

I don't think so Tony...the way you wrote this makes me think
that you think the tu-160 has only two engines. It has four son,
and I'd not bet the farm that it can get off the ground on one
engine.
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-Gord.

I wonder if Tony meant to say 'The Tu-160 is perfectly capable of taking off
with one engine INOPERATIVE' ???

That is perfectly possible - as I have posted.

Or, as Gord says - maybe he was thinking of a Tu-16 ?? That has TWO engines.

But I don't think even a lightly-loaded Tu-16 could take off on just ONE engine
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