Originally Posted by
Argonautical
I remember talking to a B-52 pilot at an airshow years ago. I asked him why they didn't replace the 8 engines with 4 new ones like they did with the KC-135. He wasn't impressed with the proposal and asked me if I would want to lose one engine out of 4 on a fully laded take-off!
What?!! As opposed to one engine out of TWO fully loaded on the vast majority of modern airliners?
But it does bring to mind the dreaded 7-engine approach in a B-52.