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Old 9th Nov 2000, 13:55
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The compressor blades do all the 'pushing'. There's also a fair amount of plain jet thrust (no pun intended) from the combustors, but the turbine soaks up a rather large chunk of all that forward thrust, leaving the left-overs for forward 'push'.