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Subject: Here's Why Engines Are Making Planes Slower Now Than 50 Years Ago
Date: 2 Mar 2017 17:54:26 -0800
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http://jalopnik.com/heres-why-engines-are-making-planes-slower-now-than-50-1792874022
If you watch the video, and you should because it is good, it explains that a
lot of that has to do with the ever-hungering thirst for fuel efficiency in the
---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QEj09Pe6k
So that means that in the past few decades, manufacturers have moved away from
certain types of engines, like turbojets, and moved to others, like turbofans.
manufacturers compete on fuel economy.
barrier-shattering speed, for a long time. And even speedy subsonic jets, like
the Convair 880, are just ghosts of the past.
Sad!
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