A twin engine airplane is an airplane which has two engines for the purposes of redundancy and/or performance. Twin engine aircraft are considerably more complex to fly than single engine aircraft, and so the FAA requires a special multi-engine endorsement in order to operate them.
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For Western Aircraft, their PC-12 model is the safest general aviation aircraft, one of the reasons is 8,000,000 flight hours with no fatalities due to engine failure.According to AirSafe statistics the 5 safest comercial airplanes (with minimun number of accidetns) are:Airbus A330Airbus A340Boeing 777Boeing 717Boeing 737 (600-900 series)
With the above mentioned answer, it is pretty much correct except for the twin engine aircraft. For the twin engine aircraft, the critical engine is the one that produces a thrust line closest to the fuselage. Example: if the twin engine aircraft is equipped with 2X engines which have the propeller rotating in a clockwise direction, then the left engine will be the critical engine. This is because the down going blade on the left engine will produce a line of thrust closest to the fuselage compared to the right engine's propeller. So it is safe to say that if the left engine fails, the aircraft will be harder to control because the thrust line produced by the live engine on the right side has a longer arm from the fuselage causing a higher moment wanting to yaw and roll the aircraft to the left which is harder to control compared to if the right engine fails, such as the Piper Twin Comanche aircraft. However, if the twin engine aircraft is equipped with counter rotating propellers, meaning, the left engine prop rotating clockwise and the right engine propeller rotating counter clockwise, then there is no critical engine, because both down going blades of the propeller produces a thrust line both equal in distance from the center of the fuselage.
All of those Boeing aircraft are twin jet except the 747 which has 4.
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The Eurofighter Typhoon is powered by twin EJ 200 turbofans, developed by Eurojet in Munich.
Cessna is an aircraft manufacturer based in Kansas. They make business jets, single-engine turboprops and high-wing piston single-engine airplanes, and they used to make twin-engine piston aircraft. Clyde Cessna preferred to design his aircraft with a high wing above the cockpit. Cessna aircraft usually have this feature.
The SW-3 refers to the Swearingen Merlin (also called the Fairchild Aerospace Merlin). It is a pressurized turboprop twin engine business aircraft.
Beechcraft, now knows as Hawker Beechcraft, is a manufacturer of light aircraft. They produce domestic single and twin engine aircraft, and military training aircraft and small transports.
WWII general rule of thumb: 1. Single engine-fighter 2. Twin engine-medium bomber 3. Four engine-heavy bomber
Dassault Rafale is a French twin-engine fighter aircraft. In addition, it was built and designed by Dassault Aviation. Also, it is a multi-role fighter aircraft.