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Old 22nd Nov 2002, 17:51
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JF - apologies for any confusion resulting from my post.

As I understand it, there is no handling problem in TypHoon resulting from double engine failure per se - as long as there is sufficient flight control hydraulic power and electrical power available from appropriate back-up systems. If there isn't, it will depart in pitch so rapidly that the crew would be incapacitated before they could attempt to eject. Hence my supposition that the only recourse in the event of much silence from the back end is to do whatever is required to reach a bail-out area before the aeroplane attempts to insert its radome up its own jetpipes!
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