Originally Posted by
TURIN
"Engine failure during the hover" said Mr Farley "would be a bit tricky to get past the regulator" or words to that effect.
Succinct and to the point.
Yes and we had done a lot of VTOL research projects with multiple lift engines and it was pretty clear that if a lift engine failed an "equal and opposite" engine had to shut down automatically and speedily before the thing turned over. Not a problem with the Harrier or any other single engined job provided you accepted the "all or nothing" consequences.