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
DirtySingh t1_irstk5n wrote on October 10, 2022 at 7:41 PM I just always assumed the blades pull the plane forward not the back of the engine pushing it forward Permalink 1
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