2025-07-07 • Aviation
The Simple Genius of the Turbofan
I'm a pilot, and while I love the reciprocating engines I fly, the engineer in me is always slightly uneasy. There is just so much going on inside them—so many moving parts, so many potential points of failure, and so many different materials with different heat coefficients, all expanding at different rates. And someone thought to put that on an airplane. It's a marvel that it works so well, but it's a complex one.
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