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Old 02-17-2010, 10:25 AM
kknudson kknudson is offline
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Originally Posted by raymr View Post
Its also pretty noisy back there, from what I remember.
I also believe they do not have the hush kits, or they are less effective for tail mounted engines.
Despite the enormous size of todays engines, the core engine itself hasn't gotten that much bigger (% wise). The increase in size creates bypass air, which is used to increase the engines effiency and decrease it noise.
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