Electric motors are finally getting good enough in performance to capture efficiency gains from having a second turbine drive an adaptive cycle jet engine. This new jet engine will enable commercial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venus Aerospace is a US startup developing a Mach 9 hypersonic jet known as Stargazer. The ultra-speedy plane would carry up to 12 ...

A modern jet engine is a complex mechanical wonder. However, these aren't engines that will just roar into action with the turn of a key or the press of a button. Often, turbine engines will need ...

Pilots follow a specific procedure to achieve successful engine starts. In this video, key steps are outlined, including the First Officer announcing the engine start, selecting the Engine Start ...

In this clip I fire up my big RC turbine jet right outside the workshop. You can see the full startup sequence as I bring the engine to life and wait for the idle to come up while my friends look on.

It sounds like something out of science fiction, but the idea of a turbine jet engine in a mainstream production car is not ...