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7) to get 33-pounds of thrust.
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The fan only comes on momentarily for hard braking, maybe one of the other [of six IIRC] modes.
Thrust was the second or third effect. Mainly it's a pneumatic amplifier that turbo-charges the diffuser. Suction on demand. If you embiggen the illustration in Permalink #13, you see there is air drawn out of the rear wheelwell. Not sure what that 's about.
Did you pay for the magazine? On Youtube
you can see Gordon Murray talk about it for hours for free.