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 ...

with a view towards starting a production run later in the decade. However, this ultimately did not come to pass, as the turbine engine fell out of favor as a concept and the automotive world ...

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 the opposite direction. Simple ...

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 ...