Technical difficulties were never fully overcome, the increasing cost of fuel made gas turbine cars uneconomic to run, and meanwhile by the 1960s the piston engine had improved immeasurably over ...

Volkswagen made the first major mechanical update to the Bus when it rolled out the Type 4 flat-four, which is also known as the “pancake engine,” for the 1972 model year. The company simultaneously ...

This process isn't too far removed from what takes place in a standard piston-powered car engine, but instead of a continual ...

Fuel is added in a combustor and ... Exhaust whose energy isn’t spent in turning the turbine is expelled and produces thrust, which propels the engine and the vehicle it’s attached to in ...

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Sean Rader, director of maintenance at King Aero Management, repurposed scrap parts to build a demo turbine jet engine with cutaways for the program. The brightly-colored demo – which resembles ...

The latest update to the high-bypass turbofan GTF engines will reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions for operators of ...