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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As long as the airspeed is above a certain minimum, the pilot can keep it straight with application of rudder.
On takeoff, you don’t let the airplane lift off until it’s past that critical speed; if an engine quits before that, you must cut the other and stop. Once you’re airborne, you never let the airspeed get below that minimum (which is substantially less than cruising speed).
You can’t get licensed to fly multiengine airplanes without demonstrating the engine-out condition dozens of times; almost every training flight will involve the instructor shutting down an engine without warning and evaluating how you deal with it.
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