"The thing they don't want you to know..." (/clickbait_headline) Nary a King Air has counter-rotating props. As such, they all have a critical engine. Beechcr

"The thing they don't want you to know..." (/clickbait_headline) Nary a King Air has counter-rotating props. As such, they all have a critical engine. Beechcraft as a company is sort of like the black-box storage providers of the 2000s pre-cloud IT world. They're not doing anything better than anyone else, with the exception of marketing... The terms you wanna google here if you're curious and not familiar are "P-factor" and "adverse yaw." There are lots of better airplanes to toss parachute jumpers out of than a King Air for this reason. For that matter, there are a lot better airplanes for the owner of this airplane in question to take his family to Aspen or Grand Cayman in, for the exact same reason. If the aforementioned early 2000s IT storage salesman responds to a question of how you recover from disk failure with "don't have a disk failure," you would probably walk away not not buy his black box, right? Yet people buy King Airs because they bought a Baron before it, and bought the Baron because it was just a Bonanza with two props. "What's going on with all these King Air crashes?" [1] 1. https://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/whats-going-with-all-these-king-air-crashes https://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/whats-going-with...