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Old 26th May 2003 | 03:47
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Mad (Flt) Scientist
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Noise regs will generally drive engines towards more massflow rather than higher jet velocities, since high spped efflux is a major source of noise. So I would say that most thrust increase is coming from larger massflow.
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