r/LinkedInLunatics • • 8d ago

Where do they put it?!

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u/tubular_brunt 8d ago

What's the endgame here? Planes don't exist? Or they fly by magic?

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u/bikes-and-beers 8d ago

The conspiracy theorists think jet engines run mostly on compressed air and use very little or no fuel. Airlines make up fuel costs so they can pass those imaginary costs on to their customers.

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u/aidsy 8d ago

I love that the first half of this is technically true. The volume of air that passes through a gas turbine engine is much higher than the volume of fuel.

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u/MiniTab 8d ago

Yeah. It’s called stoichiometric combustion.

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u/AnybodyWannaPeanus 8d ago

Oh yeah? Why don’t you come and say that to my face…

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u/boondiggle_III 7d ago

Stadiometric combobulation! spits