Good point. We should be discussing eight-engine planes.

This is where some of the E-Plane concepts really shine. Let's see a flock of birds take out every engine on this NASA demonstrator:

https://sacd.larc.nasa.gov/asab/asab-projects-2/x57maxwell/

We should be discussing no-engine planes, since they are obviously safer in such situations.

Yes, why would we put those polluting and noisy engines on the plane?

The passengers could just take turns going out and pushing.

Bicycle pedals at every seat. Maybe with a deadman interlock so that if you stop pedalling your seat falls out of the plane.

¿Por qué no los ocho?

Like the b 52 bomber. I always liked them. We could convert them for passenger flights. Airlines could develop luggage pods that hang from the wings and the planes support mid air refuelling so that could help with turnarounds. They also have tail guns for even more safety. Also huge bay doors which will make getting on and off the plane much faster.

Make the cabin a cartridge that clicks into the bottom. Give the cabin wheels and propulsion.

Door to door international service. I like it.

Thunderbird 2 was always the best one. Even if those stubby forward-swept wings don't really seem like what you need for the normal mission profiles!

What's with these comments

>Why don’t all four tires on a car blow out at the same time?

They do if you drive over a stinger (or perhaps a sufficiently large number of nails or other sharp objects).

They also do if you go around the car with a knife and you stab them.

But it is somehow implied that the context of the comment is normal driving conditions.

Perhaps that comment could be reworded like:

>When driving on a highway, while not being pursued by the police, on planet Earth, with a road temperature below 200C, and not driving behind a van transporting nails with an open door that's dropping them on the road, why don’t all four tires on a car blow out at the same time?

That way people could get a better sense of what it is about.

The kid would have to have a pretty large glass milk bottle hidden under his coat for that to happen.