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With a piston-prop or turbo-prop airplane, the engine rotates the propeller so it's easy enough to use an electric engine for that. Jet engine thrust comes fro
by ksherlock 11y ago
With a piston-prop or turbo-prop airplane, the engine rotates the propeller so it's easy enough to use an electric engine for that.
Jet engine thrust comes from the exhaust gas. How do you replace that with electricity? compressing air (pulse jets)? generate plasma?
- chris_va 11y agoNot entirely. Modern jet turbines have ~12:1 bypass ratios, meaning the exhaust is mostly just turning a fan, pushing 11 times the amount of air as goes into combustion.