LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Airplane: Engines
built 470 days ago
Something flew off the airplane. (It was later discovered to be a propeller.) Then the airplane suddenly veered right. Orville couldn't get the machine to respond. He shut off the engine. Yet he kept trying to regain control of the airplane.
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New York Times - A few summers ago, Indu Navar, founder and chief executive of the Silicon Valley software maker Serus, paid for her employees to jump out of an airplane. None of them had sky-dived before, and Sumeet Haldankar, a program engineer, said the 14,500-foot plunge delivered such an adrenalin rush that people hugged and laughed giddily when they landed safely.
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Fumes — the air in the airplane comes from the engines; part of what they suck in is diverted to the cabin for air conditioning. Any fumes emitted from forward of the engines will be sucked in and spread through the cabin. The odor of the oxygen generators adds to that.
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On some aircraft, such as the Harrier, the thrust direction can be varied to help the airplane take off in a very short distance. The magnitude of the thrust depends on many factors associated with the propulsion system including the type of engine, the number of engines, and the throttle setting.
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John-the-skeptic, a hole in the fuselage allows the odor of the combusting aviation fuel in the jet engine (whatever the grade of fuel) to enter the airplane. Therefore, passengers would smell something ‘burning.’
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