Gas turbine engines, most commonly encountered deafening you in the back row of a cross-country commercial flight, have also been used in automobiles, and prototype automobiles, for over 60 years. If ...
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Chrysler’s 1963 turbine car sounded like the future and almost was
The Chrysler Turbine Car did not just sound like the future. For a brief moment in the early 1960s, it put jet technology in ...
Turbojet engines are an incredible piece of 20th century engineering that except for some edge cases, have mostly been replaced by Turbofans. Still, even the most basic early designs were ...
The impact of airborne particulates on aircraft engines is a challenge for aviation. Credit: Clay Lacy Aviation On May 24, 1988, TACA Flight 110, a Boeing 737-300, was flying from Belize to New ...
The Ford Motor Company of the 1950s brewed up what some journalists thought was the engine of the future. At a time when the gas turbine was all the rage, Ford experimented with a new kind of piston ...
Chromalloy opened a new specialty-machining center for finishing gas-turbine engine parts in Guaymas, Mexico. It has been operating at an adjacent location since 2009, but it broke ground in June for ...
The first of Union Pacific's third-generation GTEL locomotives. Wikimedia Commons/Union Pacific. The combination of advances in engine management technology, in the design of heat exchange technology ...
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 ...
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