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Old 13th Oct 2008, 05:00
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Originally Posted by HYPNOS
when it gets higher, air is less dense, the thrust producing by the engines should be less. (Coz im flying a warrior and trying to appply same principles to a turbofan engine)
I'm not an expert, but it's not the same principles - the piston engine is taking in an amount of air, and attempting to burn as much fuel as possible through it, so as the air density reduces, you have the familiar reduction in power.

A turbofan engine however, passes far more air than it can burn fuel for (without melting), so doesn't behave the same way - my basic understanding is it will not suffer the same reduction in performance.
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