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To: wrench
The diesel is the great grandfather of the jet engine.

Now how do you get THAT? Jet engines are turbine engines, if anything they derive from the steam turbine engines that developed at the end of the 19th century.
83 posted on 12/30/2007 12:11:52 PM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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To: Kozak

Diesel fuel is very similar to kerosene, or, JP4 jet fuel.


87 posted on 12/30/2007 12:21:08 PM PST by AnalogReigns
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