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a small engine plane is a plane that is small
A Cessna single-engine.
the piper warrior
The SBD was a single engine plane. All WWII carrier aircraft were single engine.
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Basically the second Magneto is provided as a fail safe. There are a lot of redundancies in aviation, especially when it comes to maintenance and safety. The second magneto on a single engine plane is there to contine to provide a spark to the engine in case of a failure of the first magneto.
in the single-seat, single-engine purpose built RyanmonoplaneSpirit of St. Louis
long enough to take off
The Spitfire is a single engine fighter, a little smaller than a P-51.
Red Single Engine Lock-head Vega Airplane
Most commonly on the front attached to the fuselage. However, there are many variations. On a "pusher" the engine is at the back of the fuselage. The engine can be mounted above the wing and fuselage on some seaplanes.
Orville and Wilbur Wright's Wright Flyer of 1903 only had one engine...The person who invented the all-metal airplane with the cantilever wing, which is the kind of plane people are building now, is Hugo Junkers.