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

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 ...

The closed-cycle rocket engine design. Image via Wikipedia The ... It would be twice as big as the NK-33, with five times the thrust of a jumbo jet. The RD-180 was not a slam dunk design, however.

The Sea Dragon, a 490-foot behemoth, would have been built of inexpensive steel and launched from the sea, minimizing ground ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.