In How Airliners Fly it shows the workings of a jet engine and states:
"The fan, which is encased in a cowling, forces the compressed air backwards in the form of a jet, much in the form of a domestic electric fan. The engine itself experiences an equal and opposite force and this is the forward acting thrust which propels the aircraft".
If the thrust is coming out forward from the engine, how come the aircraft still flies forwards?
