The reduced takeoff thrust procedure increases engine durability, lowers maintenance costs, and increases engine reliability.

Levers are literally all around us. You body uses them to move, pick up a pen to sign your name and you’ll use mechanical advantage to make that ballpoint roll, and that can of soda doesn’t ...

We're talking about mechanical advantage—more specifically, about one of the most basic of all machines that makes use of mechanical advantage: the lever. Levers are everywhere. The light switch ...

Lever-action rifles are turning up by the scores in used-gun racks, their wooden stocks battered and once-blued steel worn silver. The grandfathers who used them are afield in happier hunting ...

One of the highest profile rivalries in terms of aircraft families has been that between the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320.

Ural’s A320 is being taken apart more than a year after it force-landed in the wheat field Ural Airlines says components from the cockpit and passenger cabin were the first to be removed, but ...

Thrust bearings have rolling elements which primarily support the axial loads of rotating devices. Several styles of bearings are available in thrust configurations. Whereas radial-load bearings ...

Changing these institutions is a slow and difficult process. Can other policy levers help kick-start growth when strong institutions are absent? Here, we look at successful episodes of development ...

A lever is a simple mechanism that uses a bar to pivot around a fixed point called a fulcrum. Levers can be joined together to form linkages. Simple linkages can be used to change the direction of ...

Flying a thrust-vectoring rocket can be a challenge, and even more so if you stack multiple stages and a minimalist flight computer on top of it all. But [Joe Barnard] is not one to shy away from ...

Well, Mwaksy, the reason for thatis because the wheelbarrow is a clever use of a lever.A lever? How does that work?OK, so, a lever is simple machinethat helps you lift something by providingwhat's ...

Located in North Texas, Thrust Flight offers a Zero Time to Airline program to get students to the airlines. Offering students airline pilot mentors, Thrust’s students are set up for success ...