News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:See Thru Jet Engine [video] by Gibbon1 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:48AM (#32147972)
They're both exploiting the same principal. It's more efficient to generate thrust by accelerating a large amount of air a little than a little amount of a air a lot.

Figure of merit is the bypass ratio. Props are 50-100, fans are 3-10.

So big advantage of a turboprop is a much higher bypass ratio than fans. Downside is props can't spin as fast and so need a high speed gearbox to drive them. And props loose efficiency at high speeds.

I think for large fast aircraft turbofans are a win. For medium sized slower aircraft turboprops are a win.

Re:See Thru Jet Engine [video] by sien on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:04AM (#32148060)
The turbofan wikipedia page has a very nice graph that shows the propulsive efficiency of turbofans, turboprops and turbojets at different speeds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan#Efficiency