The MIRA I prototype was poised for the world’s first aerospike rocket engine test, but it crashed on takeoff before its ...

The world's first flight test for an aerospike rocket engine ended in disaster, but Polaris Aerospace is back on track, ...

Wondering why some commercial planes have a burning odor before takeoff, and if there's a health risk associated with it?

However, MIT recently demonstrated an ion-powered airplane ... So the ion engine is just using electricity to create thrust exhaust instead of burning rocket fuel. The downside is that the ...

The high-velocity exhaust from the turbine creates thrust and moves the engine (and the aircraft) forward. The engine ...

As the plane took off, landed ... raw fuel was injected into the engine exhaust, providing a powerful boost. This afterburner system was similar to technology used today by fighter jets and ...

Hong Kong aviation investigators say an engine problem that caused Cathay Pacific to ground its entire fleet of Airbus A350 ...

It's been a long time since the automotive world has bothered with the mixing of oil and gas of the two-stroke combustion ...

An aircraft carrier’s island is the structure ... One of the island’s functions is to carry exhaust away from the engines and deliver a constant supply of fresh air, so it’s best if the ...

or watched a plane puff out a plume as it passed above, you may have wondered, “what causes that?” Condensation trails, or contrails for short, are not simply exhaust, like you might see from a car ...

Contrails, short for condensation trails, form when the hot, moist exhaust from an airplane’s engine meets the cold, low-pressure atmosphere at high altitudes. This process causes the water ...

A plane carrying footballer ... monoxide must have come from the engine into the cabin," he said. "Our analysis, taking everything into consideration, for the exhaust fumes to get into the ...