Originally Posted by Liam Gallagher
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Hey Mr Engineer, design me an aircraft than can fly on 2 engines, but is fitted with 4, so that if 1 fails we can recover the plane to a more suitable airfield and still have adequate redundancy. Hey Mr Airplane operator, shan't bother, some clown on pprune reckons it is an improvement that you cant use redundancy for commercial benefit. OK Mr Engineer give me a 2 engine aircraft with no redundancy, with no back up air, hydraulics and electrical...that'll save me a fortune....horrah G&T's all round.....
Nice thinking...how has Boeing and Airbus and BA and VS, CX, QF, NZ got it so wrong all these years.....
I did not say that, the planes a fine as they are, that is not the issue.
I think I am only raising a hypothesis that may be usefull.
Would you fly a concord or A 380 across the pond if fuel allowed you to do so with 1 engine out. Both have 4 engines and enough redundancy I hope.