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How Jet Engines Actually Work (And Why It’s So Cool)

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Nobody Talks About This Enough You’re sitting in seat 32A, somewhere over the Atlantic, sipping bad coffee at 35,000 feet. Just a few meters away, a machine the size of a small car is spinning at roughly 15,000 RPM, burning through hundreds of pounds of jet fuel per hour, and doing it so reliably that […]