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Program 5, Episode 105

How It Works

program 5 imageWe take for granted how easily a plane weighing over half a million pounds lifts off the ground with such ease. How does this happen? The answer is simple. It's engines.

Most modern day jet airplanes use gas turbine engines to provide thrust. But how does a turbine engine work?

Correspondent Johnny Alonso spoke with NASA researcher Teresa Benyo at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach Virginia to find out more…

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http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/ACCL/ENG10/engines.html

 
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