In the minds of the majority of individuals when aircraft engines are considered, an image of either revolving propellers or obnoxious jet engines comes to mind. The systems have characterized decades ...

Ford had a number of significant failures, although I’m not talking about the car company and flops like the Edsel. I’m talking about the founder of the firm, Henry Ford, and the projects that didn’t ...

Engineering exercises in powerplant design which end up against a brick wall are being executed by major automobile manufacturers with programmed regularity. That is, the surface appearance is that ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...

It's only natural for minds to run to Chrysler when the word "hemi" comes up in conversation. While Chrysler didn't invent the hemispherical combustion chamber engine, with that honor going to Allie ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...

The US Air Force is funding development of adaptive-cycle turbofans under the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion programme. GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney (P&W) have advanced their designs for ...