It's the stuff of fantasy: jet fuel making a dieselvehicle tak e off like, well, a jet. But what really happens if you put ...

In new photos, the X-59 performs afterburner tests at Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 made history on Tuesday by becoming the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. Before ...

who wouldn’t want to watch the sheer power of four RS-25 rocket engines burn for hour upon hour? While you look into the vibrant glow of the roaring jet engines, why not consider what you’ve ...

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...

The X-1 was first flown on glide tests, in Florida, after being dropped from a B-29 at 29,000 feet. It wasn’t until information collected during the glide tests was processed, and adjustments were ...

A space-aged new pan designed by a rocket scientist from the University ... its outside inspired by heat transfer methods used in jet engines and rockets. Inventors say the fins help to more ...

Taking place two years after debuting its full rocket ... Jet used by Virgin Orbit comes from another Branson company, Virgin Atlantic Airways. Source: Planespotters.net Four General Electric CF6 ...

It is a hybrid between a conventional jet engine, and a rocket system powered by liquid oxygen. The system will be reusable, much like an aeroplane, with no need to jettison expensive fuel tanks ...

Gulping 40,000 pounds of propellant per second, the booster climbed away from its launch stand and gracefully arced over to the east atop a long jet ... engines to reverse course and headed back ...

And systems like the Bell Rocket Belt were actually rocket packs ... had in terms of enough propulsive force in a small form. Jet engines, I mean, they haven't been around that long.