Which motor is used in an aeroplane?
Jet engines move the airplane forward with a great force that is produced by a tremendous thrust and causes the plane to fly very fast. All jet engines, which are also called gas turbines, work on the same principle. The engine sucks air in at the front with a fan. A compressor raises the pressure of the air. According to a principle of aerodynamics called Bernoulli’s law, fast-moving air is at lower pressure than slow-moving air, so the pressure above the wing is lower than the pressure below, and this creates the lift that powers the plane upward.
How many HP is in an airplane motor?
An average passenger car produces 150-200 horsepower, while the two engines of a fully loaded Boeing 777 on a cruise flight generate approximately 46 Megawatts of power. One Megawatt is equal to 1341 mechanical horsepower. Therefore, the two GE90 engines in our example produce approximately 61,700 horsepower. The Boeing 777’s twinjet engines equal 175,000 horsepower.