This is how the world's most technologically advanced fighter jet engine is made for the F-35 Lightning II. From its incredible speed to its stealth design, learn how this engine allows the aircraft ...

In the late 1940s, GE introduced the J-47 gas turbine engine, which became the most-produced jet engine of the early jet age, ...

We build a jet engine-powered merry-go-round out of questionably weak materials, then try to spin it up like it is a normal theme park ride. The plan is simple - fire up the engine, test the controls, ...

Fighter jet engines are complex machines that enable aircraft to reach incredible speeds. The modern fighter jet is defined by its engine, which accelerates a tremendous volume of air rearward that it ...

"A jet engine is not that much different from an internal combustion engine in that it pushes the air in, squeezes it, ignites it and pushes it out.” Simon Lipscombe’s idiot-proof explanation of the ...

With their capability to fly higher, farther, and more efficiently, jet engines have transformed air travel since their introduction. From its origins in the 1930s, the jet engine was a substantial ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...