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 needed power to take off from this small airport strip i more than the one needed to cruise at the speed that lets it glide on air.
Same thing as a car, you need the gas pedal to take off from the street light but barely touch it to keep cruising.
In a similar way to your analogy, some cars have cylinder deactivation technology where it runs on 8 cylinder when accelerating and 4 while cruising.
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