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Depending on the plane and engine. Big jetliners have high-bypass turbines where they do intentionally produce a lot of torque, to spin a large compressor fan,
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y ago
Depending on the plane and engine. Big jetliners have high-bypass turbines where they do intentionally produce a lot of torque, to spin a large compressor fan, but most of the fan air does not go through the combustion step, it's just used to react off of.
- WalterBright 3y agoIt's ironic how propeller airplanes evolved into jets for for thrust and back to propellers. (A ducted fan is still a propeller.)
- pfdietz 3y agoWe may go to unducted fans soon. The latest iteration of this concept has two sets of fans, one set of which doesn't rotate.