kled7 t1_irp75wu wrote on October 9, 2022 at 11:48 PM Reply to comment by Clay_Statue 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 It’s not so much the math. It’s testing. The math is pretty straightforward, but it was the prototyping and testing that got the engines we have today. Permalink Parent 17
kled7 t1_irp75wu wrote
Reply to comment by Clay_Statue 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
It’s not so much the math. It’s testing. The math is pretty straightforward, but it was the prototyping and testing that got the engines we have today.