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by ChuckMcM 1151 days ago
lol, love this. Yeah, high bypass turbofan was what I was thinking about, and yes those are "jet" engines. Model airplanes use something called an electric ducted fan or EDF[1], and it has the nice properties in that you can run it over a wide range of speeds if desired. The recent Black Sea MQ-9 incident would, in my opinion, turned out differently if that drone used a shrouded engines for propulsion.

[1] https://www.rc-airplane-world.com/rc-jets.html