2006-11-26 23:00:57 · 8 answers · asked by Andleeb R 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
It allowed people to make transcontinental, transatlantic, or transpacific flights in very quick times. A transatlantic/transpacific flight in a single-engine plane would take MANY hours, if at all possible!!
2006-11-26 23:42:58 · answer #1 · answered by barrych209 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jet engines are more reliable and need less maintenance.
Jet engines are effective at high altitude (so planes can fly above the weather).
Jet engines are more powerful (so planes can be bigger and faster).
The result is that jet planes can carry bigger loads at faster speeds, avoiding bad weather, and rarely stopping for breakdowns or maintenance.
(Propellor planes are cheaper and more efficient and are still used for very short commercial flights. And also long flights -- the Voyager plane that flew around the world without stopping was propellor driven -- but it had to fly through the weather)
2006-11-29 23:48:52 · answer #2 · answered by Chris H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The jet offers several advantages over the old piston engines. 1.The jet is much more powerful than a piston engine. 2. The jet is a lot easier and less time consuming to work on. 3. While the jet drinks more fuel per hour than a piston engine it travels the distance much faster than the piston engine and thus uses less fuel overall. These advances combined to reduce operating cost and the number of people to operate an airline. This helped to make flying affordable to you and me.
2006-11-27 05:56:17 · answer #3 · answered by brian L 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The jet engine has reduced flying times and fuel economy for airlines.
The jet engine is very reliable and requires less maintenance than piston engines and operate more efficiently at higher altitudes.
(Plus not so many people get chopped up in propeller blades!)
2006-11-27 02:22:19 · answer #4 · answered by michelle_greene_ragio 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
engines are fuel efficient today. Aircraft also have what is called wing fenses to give the plane better fuel ranges. Engines have what is called a high by-pass fan, better air flow, and less fuel better burn time
2006-11-27 02:42:51 · answer #5 · answered by JT 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
................ WELL the jet engine brought in more power ............ therefore an plane could fly ............. higher by way of altitude and further .............. propeller planes had the disadvantage of forward speed limitation ...................... thus with jet the planes could fly faster ............... reducing the time of travel ............ thus more people traveled ............. it was a kind of spin off ..............
2006-11-27 01:02:33 · answer #6 · answered by spaceman 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
made planes go faster
2006-11-27 02:23:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do your own homework you pleeb.
2006-11-27 05:05:15 · answer #8 · answered by Drewpie 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋