Jet engines that you find (most commonly) or airplanes have a particular kind of fan that helps make the whole thing work. Here's what it does.

I’ve built a few projects recently where I pushed myself along with electric ducted fans. These run on a 6S LiPo battery and draw 80 Amps each, so they are rated at nearly 2KW each.

Pitted against a radical new tiltrotor jet concept from Bell, Aurora’s SPRINT design uses a blended-wing aerostructure that internally houses two jet engines to provide forward thrust and rotor ...