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 ...

Give it wheels and a steering mechanism, and people will try to power it with anything they can. Visionary (and not-so-visionary) tinkerers and engineers have experimented with everything from steam ...

The engine is the lifeblood of a car. It converts fuel, usually gasoline, into physical motion that turns the wheels and makes the vehicles go. Over the years, as technology advanced, so too did ...

Damage to the hot section of the KLM Boeing 747 that encountered volcanic ash from Alaska’s Mount Redoubt on Dec. 14, 1989. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey An aircraft engine is like a big vacuum ...