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Originally Posted by daepp
This guy lands near me often. I came to believe that this was a much safer design than a typical twin, especially if there's an engine failure upon takeoff. Is that not true? I know this plane can be loud, but I've always wondered why the design didn't do well and evolve.
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I am curious about that as well and interested with those who have flown it have to say. For those interested, I have seen a number of these Cessna push pulls come up on controller.com or ebay. Apparently, the military had a bunch of these and some enterprising souls are restoring them for civilian use.
I think I remember hearing that the direction of the engines cancel each other out so there is little no P factor. On one engine, fairly close to just a standard single (of course without the trim correction).
