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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:16AM (#44258094)
> "4 smaller but equally efficient engines" feels like a unicorn

With turbines, yes, for fundamental reasons. With electric motors, on the other hand, perhaps not, though not particularly relevant to a long-haul route like AMD-LON.

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by notahacker on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:37AM (#44258334)
True. Also the electric/turboprop propulsion compromises like Heart Aerospace's that trade off the limitations of the respective powerplants by fitting pairs of both. But that's a different use case...

(I get to write about arrayed space thrusters in the day job too, but again, fundamentally different physics and goals...)

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