Originally Posted by Dozy
podded, wing-mounted engines...crucially in today's all-hydraulic airliners allow a greater degree of control through differential thrust than their tail-mounted counterparts.
"Crucially"? You're pulling my leg, surely! Are you seriously saying that this was a consideration in the placement of engines on the wings? Quite apart from the over-sensitive reaction to a tiny bit of asymmetric power, the pitching moment of underwing engines makes them far worse in a control-by-thrust scenario than tailmounts. Desk-jockey nonsense.
Originally Posted by Dozy
we're way outside the original topic and I'm beginning to wonder just what the point of this meandering is!
You can say that again!