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but two engine jets can fly on one engine for a while, however a one engine boat this big is an uncontrolled juggernaut when it has some speed and no engine because it doesn't have any redundancy.



Sure, I'm not saying what the ideal trade-off is. I'm just saying:

- The current accident rate due to lack of redundancy isn't too awful.

- Adding redundancy increases cost, even when it seems like you have the same total power or whatever.

My bias is towards a bit more redundancy than we have now, but not massive changes.


> but two engine jets can fly on one engine for a while

Not just for a while. They must be able to do so indefinitely, until you run out of fuel. Of course, you are going to want to get it back on the ground long before that happens.




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