• The critical engine of a multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft is the engine that, in the event of failure, would most adversely affect the performance or...
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    determines which engine is critical engine. For most aircraft (which have clockwise rotating propellers), the left engine is the critical engine. For aircraft...
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    engine failure will not endanger the flight. This is done by planning the takeoff around three critical V speeds, V1, VR and V2. V1 is the critical engine...
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    the critical engine failure recognition speed or takeoff decision speed. It is the speed above which the takeoff will continue even if an engine fails...
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    In an internal combustion engine, a supercharger compresses the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given...
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    The Wankel engine (/ˈvaŋkəl̩/, VUN-kell) is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion...
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    The aircraft diesel engine or aero diesel is a diesel-powered aircraft engine. They were used in airships and tried in aircraft in the late 1920s and...
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    A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
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    controlled with the critical engine inoperative. The radial blue line indicates VYSE, the speed for best rate of climb with the critical engine inoperative....
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    Kaveri engine architecture is unable to provide hence will not be used. The engine did achieve higher Technology Readiness Level (TRL) in critical technology...
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  • Aircraft with four or more engines have not only a VMCA (often called VMCA1 under these circumstances), where the critical engine alone is inoperative, but...
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    Counter-rotating propellers (category Aircraft engines)
    and P-factor, meaning that such aircraft do not have a critical engine in the case of engine failure. Drawbacks of counter-rotating propellers come from...
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  • Core lock (category Jet engines)
    uneven cooling can cause parts of the engine to seize. If the dimensional changes are severe enough, critical components may become jammed, reducing...
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    September 2022). "Tuas mega port officially opens with 3 berths, will be critical engine driving S'pore economy: PM Lee". The Straits Times. Retrieved 1 September...
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  • critical engine designs. ULA announced in early February 2015 that they were considering undertaking domestic production of the Russian RD-180 engine...
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    A heat engine is a system that transfers thermal energy to do mechanical or electrical work. While originally conceived in the context of mechanical energy...
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    an hour.[citation needed] On February 12, 2019, after suffering a critical engine failure, Norwegian Epic collided with a dock at San Juan, Puerto Rico...
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  • compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine). This contrasts with engines using spark plug-ignition of the...
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  • level editor. The "engine" terminology is akin to the term "software engine" used more widely in the software industry. Game engine can also refer to the...
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    improvements in critical engine components, 'fine-tuning' the radio-frequency power system settings, and upgrades to the software that controls the engine during...
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  • "The Story & the Engine" is the fifth episode of the fifteenth series of the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. It was written by Inua...
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    satisfactorily even at speeds greater than their critical Mach number. They did not possess sufficient engine thrust to reach Mach 1.0 in level flight, but...
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    Lycoming O-540 (category Boxer engines)
    used as the right-hand engine on Piper PA-31-325 Navajo C/Rs and Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain|Piper Mojaves to prevent critical engine control issues, and used...
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    Piper PA-44 Seminole (category Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft)
    engine. This feature eliminates the critical engine and makes the aircraft more controllable in the event that an engine needs to be shut down or fails. The...
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    to the Americans. Another 1,500 British trucks were found to have critical engine faults and were unusable, limiting assistance from that quarter. The...
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  • Critical Ops (abbreviated as C-OPS) is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Critical Force Ltd. It was released as...
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    General Electric F404 (category Low-bypass turbofan engines)
    afterburner in 4 seconds. The engine contains an in-flight engine condition monitoring system (IECMS) that monitors for critical malfunctions and keeps track...
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    Piper PA-31 Navajo (category Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft)
    (61 cm) for up to ten seats, with more powerful engines and counter-rotating propellers to prevent critical engine handling problems. The Chieftain was powered...
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  • Engine efficiency of thermal engines is the relationship between the total energy contained in the fuel, and the amount of energy used to perform useful...
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    Beechcraft Duchess (category Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft)
    eliminate the critical engine during single engine operation. In 1979, a single example was converted to test the turbocharged versions of the engine. The cowlings...
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