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All Navy carrier aircraft have two engines for that reason!


A bird can destroy a lot more than an engine. Many a time, not only did we have to replace engines because of bird-strikes, but also leading-edge slats/flaps, stabilators, and canopies. A bird-strike in the center of the windscreen can mean an immediate pilot-fatality.

Oh, by the way...the F-35 JSF...single-engine.

EDIT: Forgot to mention...AV-8B...also single-engine.


All current Carrier based Aircraft <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" />

Anyways, Harrier's nickname is "The Widow Maker" and I think the single engine design is a bad idea in the F-35 or for that matter any combat jet. I'm just old school.

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