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San Francisco to Tokyo in 3 hours? This turboelectric jet engine could make it real.
This Y Combinator-backed startup has invented a new kind of jet engine, radically more efficient and versatile than anything before it.
Gobs of air enter in the front of a turbojet engine each second, at the physical urging of a compressor fan rotating at several hundred miles per hour. Brooke assembled planes at first, but model helicopters truly tested his burgeoning engineering skills and his youthful mettle, which he would use to launch his first business in aerial imaging. After that, Brooke told Freethink, they’ll spend a year making the engine as light and lean as possible, while designing and building a 20,000-pound plane, essentially a mid-size private jet.
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