blue-november t1_irqo9yu wrote on October 10, 2022 at 8:58 AM Reply to 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. by Rilot This isn’t anything special. Gas turbines produce more power than they exhaust so the excess is shoved into a fan at the front, which happens to come out the same hole. Permalink 1
blue-november t1_irqo9yu wrote
Reply to 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. by Rilot
This isn’t anything special. Gas turbines produce more power than they exhaust so the excess is shoved into a fan at the front, which happens to come out the same hole.