At first glance, a commercial jet engine may look like an engineering outlier. Nearly everything else we see on planes has gotten smaller and more streamlined over the years. So why have engines continued to grow? Turns out it's because they wouldn't be as efficient any other way, according to the Minute Physics video above.
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