Turbines for Engine Backup
While I was a senior engineer at Boeing in Seattle in 1986, I learned that 747s were not equipped with ram-air turbines (also known as wind-driven turbines) to provide emergency hydraulics for primary flight controls and electrical power in the event of total engine failure or fuel starvation...
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