> I think the big danger is at landing or takeoff. If you lose an > engine or have any sort of mechanical failure on a single side, you > are going to hit hard at some really odd angle.
The engines are capable to deliver _enormous_ power for a short time in case of an engine failure - I believe this only works for a couple of minutes, afterwards the are fried ;-) But their most error prone part are not the engines but the way too short time frame for such a difficult development. Several prototypes and at least one pre-series plane crashed because of software failures .... killing several crews and passengers :-((( Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
