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Since the Wright brothers patented the airplane just 110 years ago, the planes have operated with a single engine, until two Spanish engineers had the idea of placing a second engine which in case of failure will be activated, in an invention that has already crossed the pond after its sales in Brazil.
It all came about when Miguel Suarez, an aeronautical engineer with a private pilot’s license, proposed to fly around to a work colleague, Daniel Cristóbal, an electronic engineer from Madrid, worried that the device would flew with only one engine in case of failure in flight.
In case of breakdown, “there is a procedure whereby the pilot has to land as he can,” Suarez replied, as he explained in an interview with EFE, in a response that did not satisfy Cristóbal at all.
From there, they turned the issue around until they decided to set up the Axter Aerospace company in 2011, from where they have developed a hybrid propulsion system for light aircraft similar to electric vehicles.
