We build a jet engine-powered merry-go-round out of questionably weak materials, then try to spin it up like it is a normal theme park ride. The plan is simple - fire up the engine, test the controls, ...

Watch the complete build of the WS15 turbofan engine model used on the J-20 fighter jet. This video walks through assembly ...

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 ...

In the late 1940s, GE introduced the J-47 gas turbine engine, which became the most-produced jet engine of the early jet age, ...

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Rolls-Royce is being courted by politicians in Berlin and Washington over a programme which will create 40,000 jobs across ...

It doesn't seem to matter how powerful jet engine technology becomes; the cost of air travel doesn't seem to be coming down any time soon. But that doesn't mean de facto flagship airlines like Delta ...

Jerry Seinfeld once quipped, "Why do we even use the term 'horsepower'? Is that to further humiliate horses? The space shuttle rockets have 20 million horsepower. Is there any point in still comparing ...