Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet ...
Flying

Otto Completes Laminar-Flow Testing for Low-Drag Bizjet

Otto Aerospace announced a successful flight test campaign with a laser-powered drone demonstrator, validating the aerodynamic efficiency of its transonic, laminar-flow technology. This breakthrough ...
Military Times

B-52 engine replacement clears critical design review, first modifications to begin this year

The Air Force’s program to replace the B-52H Stratofortress’s 1960s-era engines cleared its critical design review, the ...

How The SR-71 Blackbird's Titanium Skin Protected Pilots From Temperatures Above 300°C

The SR-71 Blackbird's titanium skin was a masterpiece of thermal engineering, designed to survive conditions that would melt ...

Danger in the air: Fume events haunt flight crew

Flight attendants, pilots, even passengers have been affected by neurotoxins in the air supply of commercial jet aircraft.
Autoblog

This Chevrolet Camaro Has a Jet Engine and an Afterburner—And It’s for Sale

A 2010 Chevrolet Camaro powered by a Boeing T50 turboshaft engine is up for sale after previously being owned by a well-known YouTuber. However, it is far from a replacement for a daily driver. Based ...
BGR

The Engine Of The Future Has One Major Problem It Can't Overcome - Yet

In the endless pursuit of faster, more efficient travel, engineers have been cooking up all kinds of new forms of propulsion. One of the most interesting to emerge in the last decade is the electric ...
Interesting Engineering

300 million flight hours later, GE Aerospace refines its most advanced jet engine

Thirty years ago, GE Aerospace transformed commercial aviation with a material swap that most passengers never noticed. When the GE90 engine debuted on a British Airways Boeing 777 in 1995, it carried ...
Autoblog

Subaru Really Might Put a Jet Engine in Your Next EV

The wild idea may only be a patent for now, but the Japanese automaker has been refining the idea for some time. Subaru filed two patents for electric turbine engine systems for potential use in ...
American Machinist

Rolls Proposes New Narrow-Body Jet Engine

Rolls-Royce initiated the UltraFan program more than 10 years ago, and the demonstrator engine is assembled and undergoing testing in Derby, England, at full power and running on Sustainable Aviation ...
SlashGear

What's The Average Lifespan Of A Jet Engine?

The dawn of the jet age changed the landscape of commercial flight forever, giving rise to affordable, faster travel hallmarked by chic flight attendants and non-stop flights that could take you ...
Wall Street Journal

Using Jet Engines to Power Data Centers

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