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Originally Posted by pr00ne
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Originally Posted by melmothtw
LO, where do you get that the US-2 has five engines? The entry from Jane's below, and for the life of me I can't see a fifth in any pictures.
Fifth engine is in centre fuselage, a GE turbine I think, powers BL flaps etc.
I could be wrong but I think ,the US-1 had the 5th engine , the US-2 doesn't have it.
Wikipedia thinks differently, it states:
The Boundary layer engine certainly gave the PS-1 an incredible take off performance: