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I'd never heard of trijets being dangerous before and I can't find anything to support that claim. I thought the issue with them was the expenses around buildin
by a5withtrrs 6y ago
I'd never heard of trijets being dangerous before and I can't find anything to support that claim. I thought the issue with them was the expenses around building and maintaining them.
- intern4tional 6y agoThis is off topic, but there is increased risk due to the failure of the central engine and the inability to jettison it in the event of a fire. Wikipedia notes it as a design issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trijet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trijet There are documented cases where failure of the central engine has caused a loss of the rear stabilizer. This can be resolved via additional engineering -> which increases cost of manufacturing and maintenance (which as you note was the main factor in why they went away).