any merit in running dual battery packs ?

[Bill Glaze]

Bob:
Never heard that story.  thanks.  Also, nowadays twin engine airplanes 
can maintain a safe altitude on a single engine.  Or so they told me 
when I got my type rating on the 757/767. :-P   Sure hope they weren't 
kidding me!  Bill Glaze

Bob Richards wrote:

> Bill,
>  
> OTOH, remember the Rutan Voyager? Two centerline engines, the front 
> engine was to be shut off and feathered after it was no longer needed. 
> Rutan wanted to leave the electric starter off, since it would not be 
> needed once it left the ground. The engine maker (Teledyne?) convinced 
> him to keep the starter on, "just in case".
>  
> Halfway around the world, a fuel managment problem caused the rear 
> engine to momentarily quit, and the nose-down glide prevented the fuel 
> pickup to draw fuel again to the rear engine. The front engine was 
> started again, and once level flight was established the fuel began 
> flowing again to the rear engine. (Best recollection of the story that 
> I can remember from reading Dick Rutan's book).
>  
> You can never think of all the ways redundancy can pull your a** out 
> of the fire!!
>  
> Bob R.
>
>
> Bill Glaze <billglaze at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
>     In those days a twin engine airplane couldn't maintain flight on
>     just one engine, in most cases.  So, in his book, (We) Lindbergh
>     stated that twin engines "gave twice as much chance of an engine
>     failure."  The only thing two engines did, was to insure that you
>     had enough power to make it to the crash scene.
>     Bill Glaze
>
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