The pause before takeoff is not hesitation, but a critical moment of engine verification and thrust stabilization.

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 ...

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

Put simply, conventional supersonic engines are jet engines that are capable of reconfiguring themselves to operate at air speeds beyond Mach 1. That means shifting the flow of air and moving ...