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Old Sep 1, 2023 | 2:04 pm
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Originally Posted by macaron35

Airbus should have indeed proposed a new version with 2 engines instead of 4 and it would probably have saved the programme…
I'm by no means an engineer, but - if the a380 could fly with just 2 engines with the same safety/efficiency, why was it originally designed with 4 engines then? Just curious...I'm thinking that there must be a reason why Airbus chose the a380 to have 4 engines at the very beginning...
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