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Old 04-18-2008 | 10:56 PM
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Default RE: Only 127,900 LBS Of Thrust

Just by contrast...in 1968 - 40 years ago- the first JT9D, the biggest jet engine in the world at the time (designed for the B747) flew its first test flight and developed a whopping 43,500 lbs of thrust