Turbo charger Jet Engines have long been considered one of the holy grails of backyard engineering. This is with good reason – they’re hard to build, and even harder to run. Many a turbo has ...
Despite these exacting requirements, it is possible to build a jet engine in the home workshop – and using a turbocharger is a great way to do that. (Video also embedded after the break.) ...
But after China decided to build the C919 in 2008, the Chinese government set up a company to develop parts and a jet engine for the narrowbody passenger jet that is designed to compete with ...
Narrator: Besides building three different engines, Matt had to build the proper jet-engine control panels, including a setup for the driver that connected to the rear controls. This meant a lot ...
The Ultrafan engine has giant carbon composite blades tipped with titanium "It's on another scale from anything I've seen before," says Lorna Carter who recently started working at a new Rolls ...
"Whittle's jet engine design was a paradigm shift from ... with Whittle trying to persuade them to build the engine the way he wanted it," he said. "Rover were constantly amending [Whittle's ...
Jet engines, I mean, they haven't been around that long. It's only since the end of the second World War, and all the effort really has gone into making them enormous and very efficient.