How can modern aircraft fly on just one engine if the other one fails? Shouldn’t the torque produced by the functioning engine make the aircraft yaw?
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The Cessna 223 is an orphaned design that had tandem engines. One pulling in front, and one pushing in the rear.
It’s a great design, but the rear propeller is trying to work in turbulent “dirty” air. A conventional twin tractor engine configuration (two engines in front, side by side), will have better fuel efficiency and a higher top speed, even with the same engines as the 223.
Maybe not better by much, but apparently it didn’t take much for customers to prefer the standard configuration.
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