The 727 was Boeing's only commercial aircraft with exactly three jet engines and holds a unique place in the history of ...

Jet engines work on the "suck, squeeze, bang, blow" principle, using highly pressurized air and fuel combustion to generate ...

It gave Concorde's engines a fiery glow (and also made them extremely loud). Most jet engines wouldn't perform well if they took in air flowing at supersonic speeds. Concorde's ingeniously ...

It’s left to [Integza] to take this idea and see it as the compressor for a jet engine, and though the prototype you see in the video below is fragile and prone to melting, it shows some promise.

Jet engines are known to be highly demanding machines, requiring the utmost attention to tolerances, material specifications, and operating regimes. If any of these parameters are ignored ...

Science presenter Rani Price meets two scientists involved in developing a new type of jet engine that could power commercial space flights. The engine is being developed by British scientists and ...

A group of NASA experts aren't shooting for the stars with a breakthrough jet engine core ... A NASA diagram showing the ...

While Rolls-Royce and others in the aerospace industry are working on electric and hybrid propulsion systems for aircraft, for long-haul aircraft, at the moment jet engines are the only option.

We're starting off the week with a mechanical marvel: a homemade dragster with dual Rolls-Royce jet engines that's been 17 years in the making – and could potentially hit 400 mph. Canadian auto ...

The Boeing 707, with its four jet engines, first took flight in 1958 and is credited with bringing commercial travel into the jet age. While the 707 was great for mid-to-long-range travel ...

In a windswept corner of a military site on Salisbury Plain a small aircraft jet engine is undergoing tests that could one day lead to huge changes within the aviation industry. The engine itself ...