Jet engines can't just start with the push of a button. We explain what jets need to get them going, and why there needs to ...

How does a pulse-jet engine work? Take, as a means for explanation, the Beast, a Maddox vehicle resembling a go-kart with a trio of pulse jets stacked behind the driver’s seat.

The swivel nozzle on the F-35B Lightning II, the U.S. Marine Corps' version, gives the fighter jet the ability to takeoff and land vertically.

Here’s how it works. NASA's Lockheed Martin-built X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet conducts afterburner engine tests at the Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. (Image credit: Lockheed Martin) ...

How Infrastructure Works, by Deb Chachra In its first chapter, How Infrastructure Works makes an earnest attempt to define what exactly infrastructure is. “‘All of the stuff that you don’t ...

Printing a model jet engine is quite an accomplishment. But it wasn’t enough for [linus3d]. He wanted to redesign it to have a turbojet, an afterburner, and a variable exhaust nozzle. You can… ...

Based on publicly available data, the recent spate of engine shutdowns is not that surprising. A jet engine fails around once every 375,000 hours of flight time.