ActionJetz News and Announcement » parts of a jet http://www.actionjetz.com/pilots/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:20:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Friday Fly of the Week: Matching Jetz http://www.actionjetz.com/pilots/blog/friday-fly-of-the-week-matching-jetz/ http://www.actionjetz.com/pilots/blog/friday-fly-of-the-week-matching-jetz/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:24:34 +0000 joni http://www.actionjetz.com/pilots/blog/?p=122 How well do you know your jet? Can you match the picture of the Actionjet to their corresponding name? And can you do it in 20 seconds or less?

Then go ahead and try the Matching Jetz game!

Now time for some trivia! Do you like to know the basic parts of a Jet Airplane? Here are they:

Fan - The fan is the first component in a turbofan. The large spinning fan sucks in large quantities of air. Most blades of the fan are made of titanium.

Compressor - The compressor squeezes the air that enters the jet into smaller areas to increase in the air pressure.

Combustor – In the combustor the air is mixed with fuel and then ignited. There are as many as 20 nozzles to spray fuel into the airstream. The mixture of air and fuel catches fire.

Turbine - The high-energy airflow coming out of the combustor goes into the turbine, causing the turbine blades to rotate.

Nozzle – The nozzle is the exhaust duct of the jet engine. This is the jet engine part which actually produces the thrust for the plane. The combination of the hot air and cold air are expelled and produce an exhaust, which causes a forward thrust.

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