"A jet engine is not that much different from an internal combustion engine in that it pushes the air in, squeezes it, ignites it and pushes it out.” Simon Lipscombe’s idiot-proof explanation of the ...

“You only want to drive it in a straight line under jet power. Jet engines don’t go around corners very well. The centrifugal forces in the engine tend to make things go in a straight line.” Simon ...