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The conventional turbofan that powers nearly every modern aircraft today may have already reached its evolutionary limit, says engineer Geoffrey Wilde, the 1995 winner of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' R. Tom Sawyer prize. Wilde instead proposes two radical ideas-a "contrafan," with a...
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