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SierraTango501 t1_j698u6k wrote

Also, ramjets and scramjets don't work at the speeds that commercial airliners fly at, and turbojets are hugely fuel inefficient.

The engines powering commercial airliners are turbofans, similar in construction to a turbojet, but with a large diameter intake fan, that bypasses a lot of cold air past the compression/ignition stage and mixes it with the exhaust air to generate thrust without burning up a ton of fuel a minute.

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CBMet t1_j6fmm8w wrote

Thanks for this! 😊

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