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Wov t1_irodlt8 wrote

Reply to comment by Regular-Cranberry-91 in 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

because then you just have 100 bird bits flying into the engine instead of 1 whole bird

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JJohnston015 t1_irp8sz1 wrote

Well, you know, if you watch those super slo-mo videos of bird strike tests, you'll see that the first fan makes a pretty good food processor.

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