Explore: Jet Engines

turbofan, ramjet, pulse jet, or scramjet. In general, jet engines are internal combustion engines. Air-breathing jet engines typically feature a rotating

pulsejet engines for vertical lift in military and commercial VTOL aircraft. List of aircraft engines Gluhareff Pressure Jet "Pulse Detonation Engine". Gofurther

airbreathing jet engines heat the air by burning fuel. Alternatively a heat exchanger may be used, as in a nuclear-powered jet engine. Most modern jet engines are

Whittle in Britain and Hans von Ohain in Germany, whose turbojet engines powered the first jet aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. Germany’s Junkers Jumo 004

A four-engined jet, sometimes called a quadjet, is a jet aircraft powered by four engines. The presence of four engines offers increased power and redundancy

smaller diameter, although longer, engine. By replacing the propeller used on piston engines with a high speed jet of exhaust, higher aircraft speeds

gas-turbine engines. It is colorless to straw-colored in appearance. The most commonly used fuels for commercial aviation are Jet A and Jet A-1, which

This article briefly describes the components and systems found in jet engines. Major components of a turbojet including references to turbofans, turboprops

A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by one or more jet engines. Whereas the engines in propeller-powered

Gemeinschaftsentwicklungen [Aircraft engines and jet engines. Development history of the German aviation engines from the beginnings to the European community