The turbine blades on a commercial airliner are grown ... powered by a handmade jet engine. This is an enormous fiberglass plane with a homebrew engine that spins at 90,000 RPM and doesn’t ...

When aviation disasters strike, the spotlight often turns to the tiniest components. TechJet’s meticulous manufacturing ...

Turbojet engines are ... skipped the whole turbine part, and powered the compressor with an electric motor? And instead of using an axial compressor with tons of tiny blades that would likely ...

The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has now confirmed a high-pressure turbine blade had fractured in the jet's right engine. The blade damaged a further five blades, causing significant ...

Besides, turbine jet engines push aircraft via rearward thrust, which is not permissible in traffic. Automobile turbines drive a second-stage blade through a gear reduction that slows the high ...

Jet engines work by compressing the incoming ... cooling of the sumps and high-temperature components, including turbine ...