The whine of a jet engine is unmistakable, and your brain is accustomed to matching up the sound to an aircraft flying overhead. Imagine looking to the sky when you hear it and realizing that it’s ...

In a long-running collaboration with GE Aerospace, researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia have been steadily ...

Supercomputers are capable of a mind-boggling number of calculations and one of them just found a flaw in a piece of ...

Scientists have used one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to find out how ...

Most of us are used to the sounds of controlled combustion as a piston (or rotary) engine works its strokes and climbs up its rev range. However, it’s not often one gets to hear a turbine jet-powered ...

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.

Turbojet engines are an incredible piece of 20th century engineering that except for some edge cases, have mostly been replaced by Turbofans. Still, even the most basic early designs were ...

It may not be a Thursday by the time you wind up reading this, but anyone who legitimately says throwbacks are reserved for one day a week is a killjoy. That's why we're taking a deep dive back to ...

Sometimes family genes pass on more than just hair color and health conditions—sometimes a craving for ludicrous speed works its way through the genes of a family, and it's a birthright for the Arfons ...

In this video I walk you through exactly how I start up my F22 RC turbine jet from the field. I break down the fuel system, ...