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Originally posted by Video-Post
As long as the engine produces enough thrust to sustain lift I can't see a problem. What's your point?
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Lift is not generated or an outcome in any way of thrust/engines. Lift is caused by the way a wing is placed on the fuselage and because one side of that wing is longer then the other side of the wing. Same goes for a F1 car, it gets sucked to the ground because the wind it is driving (cutting) thruw needs to travel a longer way on the upper side of that car than on the bottom side of the car so underneeth the car is a vacuum space wich sucks the car to the ground, same on aicraft wings but the other way around. It gets sucked into the air. The main purpose of an engine is to let the aircraft take-off and generate hydraulic power and electricity. Once on altitude an aicraft can go very far without engine power. A few years ago an aircraft sufered a fuel leak above the atlantic and lost all engine power. It flew about 200 miles without engines (gliding) and made a pefect landing at an airport, everybody got out safe and well. The reason an aircraft makes a descent when it looses engine power is because the air closed to earth is more likelly to suck you up or "carry" you because the density of the air.