Eli5: why are some airplane jet engines under the wings and some on the vertical stabilizer?
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Because different airplanes are designed differently to account for amount and location of weight, payload, thrust, control, and other flight characteristics to achieve different goals or make different trade-offs, just like how everything is designed.
Why doesn’t every car look the same, have the same engine, and use the same tire size?
Because different airplanes are designed differently to account for amount and location of weight, payload, thrust, control, and other flight characteristics to achieve different goals or make different trade-offs, just like how everything is designed.
Why doesn’t every car look the same, have the same engine, and use the same tire size?
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