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Comment by AaronM

Modern commercial aircraft is designed to operate on a single engine through all modes of flight.

One a plane reaches v1 during takeoff, it can lose an engine and still takeoff.

It an engine was lost before v1, the takeoff would be aborted.

Here is an Airbus doing just that.

https://youtu.be/5QMJ3_NiWbs?si=5nZ4yU7T7hsGSUu2

parent AaronM 1 year ago

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