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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

It is what makes us go, through the air anyway. Thrust is a force created by the acceleration of matter, like air. This is an application of Newton's Second Law of Motion expressed as Force = Mass x Acceleration. There are several ways to accomplish this, some better than others, but the goal is to get us from one place to another as quickly and efficiently as possible.

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Today's Random Fact:

A "pound of thrust" is equal to a force able to accelerate 1 pound of material 32 feet per second per second (32 feet per second per second happens to be equivalent to the acceleration provided by gravity). Therefore, if you have a jet engine capable of producing 1 pound of thrust, it could hold 1 pound of material suspended in the air if the jet were pointed straight down.




Bonus Fact:

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the General Electric GE90 is the most powerful jet engine in the world. Normally generating over 122,000 pounds of thrust, the GE90 generated a record 127,900 pounds of thrust as part of a one-hour, triple-red-line engine stress test. The space shuttle's main engines, on the other hand, produce about 418,000 pounds of thrust each at liftoff.