Once the air enters the fighter jet engine, it is squeezed by compressor stages, which are rotating fans and fixed blades in ...

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Commercial jets use oleo-pneumatic shock struts that combine gas and hydraulic fluid to absorb landing forces, prevent bounce ...

NPR's Madeleine Brand gets the word from Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Science Friday, about the new super-fast "scramjet" currently undergoing tests at NASA.

Jet-engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney has been awarded an approximately $2.9 billion contract modification from the U.S.

Bob Maddox once built the world’s largest pulse-jet engine and mounted it in a 1965 Jaguar. Star Wars audio engineers even recorded his pulse-jet engines for the movie Solo.

BIG RAPIDS, Mich — For some, their dream is to fly some of our country's largest airplanes. For others, their dream is to build them. Abby Frisk, a senior at Ferris State University is doing ...