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Thrust: The Driving Force
Airplanes need thrust to provide the forward speed that the wings transform into lift.
Thrust is what we get when an engine takes in air and accelerates it. When the air gains velocity, it causes thrust. When thrust and drag are in balance, an airplane’s speed stays constant. When thrust is greater than drag, speed increases, and when thrust is less than drag, the plane slows down.
A propeller generates a thrust force by taking a relatively large amount of air and accelerating it by a small amount. A jet engine takes a relatively small amount of air and accelerates it a lot. Either way, the result is thrust.
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Jet-Powered Thrust
Jet engines, or to call them by their full name, turbojet engines, rely on the principle that high-pressure air shot out of one end of an engine creates a force in the opposite direction.
In a jet engine, normal atmospheric air is allowed in at one end of the engine, is compressed and mixed with fuel, and then ignited. The explosion causes the burning mixture of fuel and air to expand and shoot out of an exhaust pipe. Whichever direction the exhaust shoots out, a force is created in the opposite direction that can be harnessed to accelerate an airplane—or a speed boat or anything else that you attach the engine to, for that matter.
Since jets were first invented in the 1930s, they’ve grown to be a lot more powerful, a lot more reliable, and a lot quieter. They now produce so much power thrust that engineers are building larger airplanes that carry more than 500 people in luxurious comfort.
