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http:mocomicom presents: jet plane fun facts for kidsin the 18th century isaac newton was the first to theorize that a rearward-channeled explosion could propel a machine forward at a great rate of speeda jet propulsion system which used piston-engine exhaust gases to add heat to an otherwise pure air stream compressed by rotating fan blades in a duct was patented by henri coanda in 1910a jet aircraft flies much faster at higher altitudes as high as 3300049000 ft than a propeller-powered aircraftthe jet engine consists of an engine with a rotary air compressor powered by a turbine with the leftover power providing thrust via a propelling nozzlethe italian caproni campini n1 motorjet prototype that flew on august 27 1940 was the first flight of a jet engined aircraft to come to popular attentionduring late world war ii germany made the first operational jet fighter which was the fastest conventional aircraft thenthe first commercial airliner was de havilland