A fighter jet engine operates by intaking air through its inlets, located under the aircraft’s wings or chin. Because fighter ...

In the ruthless seconds of a dogfight, it could be survival that hangs on a number that rarely makes it into a Hollywood film: the thrust-to-weight ratio. This seemingly harmless figure the ratio of ...

Many readers will be familiar with the Dyson Air Multiplier, an ingenious bladeless fan design in which a compressor pushes jets of air from the inside edge of a large ring. This fast-moving air draws ...

Aero engines are among the most complex machines in the world, and the indigenous development of one would have implications ...

Since the 1960s engineers around the world have been fiddling with a novel type of jet called a rotating detonation engine (RDE), but it has never got beyond the experimental stage. That could be ...