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Old 24th Jan 2005, 12:00
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Most civil turbo-fan engines have nozzles that expand the gas to less than the local speed of sound.

Typically at cruise it would be about 250-300 m/s for the fan nozzle and 300-400 m/s for the hot nozzle ; speed of sound goes up with sqrt(temperature) so the hot exhaust gases can expand to a higher velocity.

Trends are to lower velocities compensated with bigger areas, mostly for noise reduction purposes.
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