We've all thought about what would happen when you pour jet fuel into a diesel engine. Will it work or lead to immediate catastrophic failure, perhaps even an explosion? Planes are among the most ...

South Korean investigators have suggested that the Jeju Air plane involved in December's deadly crash could have continued flying for longer, despite damage to its engines due to a bird strike. :: Lee ...

There are many planes that help you fly the friendly skies, and most of them have same engines. Here's what engine and why ...

A modern jet engine is a complex mechanical wonder. However, these aren't engines that will just roar into action with the turn of a key or the press of a button. Often, turbine engines will need ...

Five years ago, in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on yet another project that doesn’t involve, well, space: the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC). Since then, NASA’s ...

Bob Maddox’s stage name, Crazy Rocketman, is a misnomer. Maddox doesn’t build rockets. He builds pulse-jet engines. There’s a difference. As for the crazy part—that may be true. Maddox is the world’s ...

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 ...

GE Aerospace reported that it has conducted more than 3 million hours of supercomputing simulations during the past three years in its effort to define new commercial jet engine technology. It is ...

Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...

Getting on a plane and landing safely always brings a sense of relief, especially in light of recent crashes. However, this doesn't mean you didn't look out the window mid-flight and think about ...