> just make the wing engines 50% more powerful

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

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.