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Jet powered aircraft have a number of advantages over conventional internal combustion propeller driven aircraft.
To start with, jet engines can operate in a much wider range of conditions. Propellers lose their effectiveness at high altitudes and at high speeds while jet engines are capable of operating at much higher altitudes and a much much higher speeds with little or no loss of power.
Jet engines have fewer moving parts than internal combustion engines which makes them easier and simpler to design, build, maintain and repair.
Jet engines run on fuel that is very similar to diesel fuel, and is much safer to handle and store than gasoline.
Jet engines can produce much more thrust power for their weight than conventional reciprocating engines do.
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Are propeller planes still being used?
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When an aircraft's engines is are operating or being started no vehicle will be driven closer than?
25 feet to the front or 200 feet to the rear of the aircraft
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