A jet engine is any engine that can propel an aircraft of some kind via rearward expulsion of a jet of fluid, typically a hot exhaust gas that the engine generates by drawing in fuel from the ...

As for similarities, both types of engines draw air into a compressor ... where the hot air is mixed with jet fuel and ignited. Ignition creates an explosion that generates thrust through one ...

It's a long story, and there's one thing I want to say straightaway: what gave us the jet engine was not just the ... who had to build them from our drawings. The story, as far as I'm concerned ...