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Jet Reaction, Part 2 |
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Jet Reaction, Part 2
By Trista L. Pollard |
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1 As you read in Jet Reaction, Part 1, the birth of the reaction engine was due to many scientists throughout the years. When airplanes first flew onto the scene, their motion was produced by propeller-driven engines. Scientists and inventors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries began to develop airstream or jet engines to use in aircraft.