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I had to purge my inbox so I've started this new PM thread ...

I'll go with the design engineers' reasoning. The goal is not to get down and stopped in the shortest distance, the goal is to get down and stopped safely in a safe distance. If a reverse thrust outboard engine were to suck stuff up from the ground and, say, shatter a turbine disk, this could cause the aircraft to swerve due to asymmetric power before the crew could react.

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The weather here just west of Denver has been very mild. In early November I predicted that Indian Summer would last till around January 15-20. We just had a small snowstorm followed by a moderate cold snap so one could say that I was wrong. However, we're back in the sunny mid-40s so mine is a moral victory even if not 100% factually correct.

Paolo,

It's not my intent to take sides when this isn't called for so thank you for the information. I was not aware of the situation. Please stay in the forum but going forward let's not insult one another. Actually, I took the arteriosclerosis remark to refer to me because I'm older than Chuck so even though you didn't intend it, you insulted me.

I think this is why we should treat each other with respect. I'll have more to say about this in reply to your post. I will say that somebody told me that Nels deleted the thread in question, and now I know why. Don't fly off the handle, I'm simply going to say that I took the remark to be referring to me.

Let's try to work through this. The Aircraft Customization forum needs all the expertise it can get.

Rohan,

I don't look for notifications unless I receive an email telling me about a private mail message, which is not very often. As result I did not see your friend request till about six hours ago. My apologies for not having responded sooner. I do value you as a friend, and I think you're going to be very successful in professional life.