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loeg 4 hours ago

You know you can just make the wing engines 50% more powerful, right?

psunavy03 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> just make the wing engines 50% more powerful

You realize this is not quite how aerospace engineering works, right?

loeg 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Essentially every new design is a twinjet, so it's clearly possible to make appropriate decisions in that design space. And both Boeing and Airbus have given up on quadjets.

lazide 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Now it is, yes. At the time, it would have required 4 total engines, which is a different matter altogether.