RE: Emergency?
Gentlemen:
We need to remember the emergencies that aren't too. Richard Bach had a term, "Automatic Rough." This happens when you are well beyond gliding range of an airport, depending on one engine. As an example, when you leave Miami for the Bahamas, you wont be more than five or ten minutes out over the Atlantic when you will start hearing strange noises from the engine, and swear you felt a little shudder. This will continue until you're on approach for landing, then the engine will be running as sweetly as ever. And it will continue running great until you're out over the water headed back, What's that I hear? Haw.
Serious notes. The early Wright R-3350TC had a habit of failing, engine shut down was so common in the first Connies with that engine that the Connie became known as "The World's Fastext Tri-Motor."
And the F-80. How many know why there was a red stripe around the afterbody? The J-47 liked to blow up, the compressor wheel would shatter. The red stripe showed where not to stand when the engine was running.
More than fifty years of development has done wonders for reliability, but stupidity will be with us forever. As for example the service sheets left in Flyboy's turbo intake.
Bill.