Professor Jau Tang and his team at Wuhan University have developed a prototype jet engine powered by microwave air plasmas, ...

Professor Jau Tang and his team have developed a prototype jet engine that uses microwave air plasmas for thrust, a method ...

The Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet can easily break the sound barrier. However, exactly how fast can it fly with and without ...

No, that feeling is the result of a special component of the jet engines aptly named the thrust reversers. It's thanks to the thrust reversers that commercial jets can slow to a safe stop on the ...

Exhaust whose energy isn’t spent in turning the turbine is expelled and produces thrust, which propels the engine and the vehicle ... If you want to build a full jet turbine, we won’t say ...

This is where the second goal of backyard jet engines come in – thrust. You need a usable amount of thrust before you can strap that engine to a go-cart and go cruising around the neighborhood.

the research team has developed an innovative secondary combustion technique that nearly doubles the thrust of a scramjet engine by injecting magnesium powder into the exhaust gases from ...

"You need to develop a host of new technologies (in India) in order to develop this new thrust-to-weight class engine," the official said. The jet engine is one of the most complex machines in the ...

The Comet 1 airliner roared into the air— and into history—on 20,000 pounds of thrust from ... speeds and high altitude. If the British could parlay their lead in jet-engine technology into ...