There are very few machines as complex to build as a turbojet engine. The turbine blades on a commercial ... turbocharger from a diesel engine into a jet. The innovation here is using a lathe ...

Smaller than a standard street bike and larger than a pocket bike it comes with a 50cc engine and is street legal. The gas turbine is being ... 150K to have your own jet bike.

A gas turbine engine is a device that is designed to convert the thermal energy of a fuel into some form of useful power, such as mechanical (or shaft) power or a high-speed thrust of a jet. The ...

In a windswept corner of a military site on Salisbury Plain a small aircraft jet engine ... The engine itself is almost completely conventional. It is a Rolls-Royce AE-2100A gas turbine, a design ...

The report explains how damaging FOD can be to aircraft, puncturing tires, punching holes in airframes, and nicking turbine ...

Anyone who has flown in a modern commercial airliner has experienced the effects of combustion turbines. Jet engines, of course, generate thrust for flight, whereas in power units, the energy ...

Welcome to the wind turbine graveyard ... Robot tanks: On patrol but not allowed to shoot Giant jet engines aim to make our flying greener The problem is significant amounts of energy are needed ...

A gas turbine engine is a device that is designed to convert the thermal energy of a fuel into some form of useful power, such as mechanical (or shaft) power or a highspeed thrust of a jet. The engine ...

BMW has announced a partnership with French automaker Peugeot to produce a line of four-cylinder engines that will power the redesigned 2008 MINI as well as future Peugeot and Citroen vehicles.

Nervous fliers have a tendency to scrutinise every little bump, whirr and thud they hear onboard a plane. Was that a wheel ...

aerospace advanced materials for gas turbine jet engines, and nanomaterials used in batteries, as well as semiconductors, LEDs, carbon nanotubes, nanowires, solar cells, and other industrial and ...