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12th Jul 2006, 15:23

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Gas turbine engines don't come close to using all the oxygen in the airflow; if they did the turbine temperatures would be ENORMOUS - both due to the huge amount of combustion going on and due to the lack of (unconsumed) air to use as cooling flow.