Airplane engine shutdowns are dangerous, particularly during takeoff. Commercial pilots are trained to deal with engine ...

However, instead of that, you feel the distinct sensation of force being pressed against you, as though they were firing in reverse ... special component of the jet engines aptly named the thrust ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued an urgent safety recommendation Wednesday to modify jet engines on ...

Jet engines are incredibly powerful ... with luxury cars — tests its engines' response to bird strikes by firing chicken carcasses into them. Airlines also play their part in reducing the ...

Jet engines are relatively simple in their basic design, but advancements in gas turbine engine technology have mostly done away with the cool-looking bucket-type reverse thrust systems.

Although commercial supersonic air travel kicked off in the 1960s with the arrival of the Concorde, since that jet was retired in ... recently fired up its engine for the first time, with tests ...