Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: fredch@phx.mcd.mot.com (Fred Christiansen) Subject: Re: 757 highest thrust to weight ratio ? X-Submission-Date: Thu, 3 Dec 92 13:23:11 -0700 References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Motorola Computer Group, RT Software Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <9212032023.AA21978@quad4.phx.mcd.mot.com> Date: 09 Dec 92 18:45:30 PST In article kls@chicago.com (Karl Swartz) writes: >Not surprisingly, the top 11 were all twins. Why "not surprisingly"? As a layman with no background in this stuff, I would have tho't that manufacturers would keep the thrust-to-weight in some ballpark range (for economic reasons). And that the advent of larger twins is because more powerful engines have become available, eliminating the need for a 3rd (or in the case of, say, MD-10 class aircraft, the need for a 4th). -- Fred Christiansen, Motorola, 2900 S Diablo Way, Tempe, AZ 85282 "Canajun, eh?" fredch@phx.mcd.mot.com || uunet!phx.mcd.mot.com!fredch || +1 602-438-3464 ".. I have set before you Life and Death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose Life, that both you and your children may live" Deut 30:19