Astro Mechanica – founded in 2021 by Ian Brooke and with a tight ship of only eight employees – is an aerospace startup ...

The global dependence on fossil fuels, especially in transportation, has dire consequences. These fuels are the largest ...

Astro Mechanica's turboelectric adaptive engine combines electric car motor technology to create an efficient solution for ...

The evolution of jet engines continued with the introduction of the axial-flow compressor ... signaling a new era in air travel. Efficiency Improvements and the Advent of High Bypass Engines ...

Even hybrid vehicles are much more expensive than the traditional combustion engine making it difficult to convince consumers to make the switch. While there were numerous operational concerns about ...

Since there is no compressor or turbine, the engine has no way to draw air into it besides the forward motion of the aircraft. In a standard jet engine, the turbine draws the air in to create the ...

Jet engines are composed of thousands of parts manufactured with specialized materials ... If the structure were not continuously aerated by a sophisticated system of laser-drilled cooling holes ...

Although Ford's 429 Cobra Jet vs 429 Thunderjet engines are similar, there are differences that set the two 429 big block ...

Pistons were free floating and, instead of driving connect rods and a crankshaft as in conventional engines, generated compressed and heated gases by recoiling between cushions of charged air, with ...

The fuel-air mixture was compressed at a 10.5:1 ratio before ignition and the spent gas vented out of the cylinder through 1.65-inch exhaust valves. Ford 429 Cobra Jet engines were fed by a 700 ...

The development of a new turboelectric jet engine is set to transform air travel by enabling affordable supersonic flights, potentially cutting travel time from San Francisco to Tokyo to just ...

Mike Millhaem followed his father into GE Aerospace 15 years ago. During that time, he has made a remarkable contribution to ...