Reaction Engines Limited (REL), based at Culham in Oxfordshire, is working on a turbine that combines both jet and rocket technologies. The Sabre engine works by burning atmospheric air in combustion ...

The jet engine is one of the primary modern inventions that has propelled the development of the global economy to its current state. It has not only changed the way people travel for leisure, but it ...

All jet engines work on the same principle. The engine sucks air in at the front via a fan. A compressor, made of spinning blades inside the main shaft of the engine, then raises the pressure of this ...

How 3D printing could help create a new generation of jet engines Jet engines have to be immensely powerful, but reliable enough to move us around safely – and building them is a laborious and ...

The mighty Rolls-Royce jet engines that go from Derby to fly around the world all descended from a surprise invention made 90 years ago. It was in late 1929 that a young RAF pilot named Frank Whittle ...

Sometime next year, if all goes well, a retired jet engine will be mounted on a flatbed trailer and taken to a coal-fired power plant in Delhi. With the exhaust nozzle pointed at the sky, the engine ...