An artist's rendering of what the small, fuel-efficient turbine engine might look like on a drone. The U.S. Air Force is offering $2 million to whoever can design a new and improved engine to ...

Job Requirements: Jet engine design requires skills in engineering fields including aerodynamics, thermodynamics, structural analysis, heat transfer, materials, electronics, chemical, software and ...

Jet engines are at the heart of modern air travel, powering the majority of commercial aircraft. These advanced propulsion systems are designed to move massive airplanes quickly and efficiently ...

Jet engines are relatively simple in their basic design, but advancements in gas turbine engine technology have mostly done away with the cool-looking bucket-type reverse thrust systems. These ...

BOSTON--Start-up FloDesign Wind, one of a number of companies looking to shake up the wind turbine business, said a prototype of its jet engine-inspired turbine was three times more efficient at ...

Also, there was the odd thing we were looking up at: a circular, 155-foot-high wind turbine, built by a Massachusetts company called FloDesign and long rumored to be a major clean-energy breakthrough.

Jet engines that you find (most commonly) or airplanes have a particular kind of fan that helps make the whole thing work.

These embedded sensors gave performance feedback, and armed with data the team iterated though ideas to improve their design. ... it’s more of a fixed-wing hang glider plus jet turbine engines.

It’s even got a jet engine in the back, ... That’s a good thing, Defoe says, because the turbine engine design is much better suited to this 21st-century task.

Each country claimed an inventor with a patent on a jet turbine engine. Britain's Frank Whittle patented his design in 1930, while Germany's Hans von Ohain registered his with the German patent ...

New design of jet drive for boats developing. ... The company's RipJet product is an electrically powered, water-propulsion motor that looks like a jet-turbine engine on a miniature aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force is offering $2 million to whoever can design a new and improved engine to power its airplanes. The competition, known as the Air Force Prize, is open to American citizens and ...