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Having your engine fail in the middle of a flight is an unnerving experience, to say the least.  For buyers or owners of small two and four-passenger aircraft, a new installation might help mitigate the disaster. Miguel Ángel Suárez of Axter Aerospace, a Spanish firm dealing in the application of electronics to private flight, highlights the goal of his firm’s recent development.  “We are trying to save lives and prevent accidents related to loss of power during flights, when the engine fails or the fuel runs out.”  In their video, the University of Charles III of Madrid (UC3M) shows the Axter installation starting its electric motor immediately after a simulated power failure of the Rotax engine on the test Tecnam …