TIL that passenger jet engines produce most of their thrust from fan at the front, not from the jet exhaust, and that this is called a high-bypass engine. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Rilot t3_xzr6qa on October 9, 2022 at 5:29 PM in todayilearned 146 comments 1,426
Inquisitivefish t1_irq1o81 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 4:03 AM Technically the fan is connected to the turbine... which is powered by the exhaust. Suck squeeze bang blow. All gas powered engines use this concept. Permalink 1
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