The aviation industry has long been in pursuit of technological efficiency and sustainability. In a recent collaboration, ...
Chrysler's best and brightest minds worked hard to not only miniaturize the turbine engine but also make it work with a car's driveshaft. These engineers redesigned many parts of the motor and ...
But, as Leno found out when the engine on his car seized, ease of maintenance was not one of them. Turbines have fewer moving parts than the piston engines used in most production cars ...
There are very few machines as complex to build as a turbojet engine. The turbine blades on a commercial airliner are grown from a single crystal of metal. The engineering tolerances are crazy ...
Turbojet engines are an incredible ... Sadly for 3d printed parts, they are made of plastic. Last we checked, plastic isn’t metal, and so 3d printing a turbine to give the extremely hot exhaust ...