Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...
RM Sotheby’s will auction off several of the venue's storied competition cars, some publicly available for the first time.
With a more powerful variant of the J79 turbojet in tow ... maintain its status as a contemporary military jet. Apart from the more powerful engine than what the Germans had, the Italian ...
The United States Navy Blue Angels Aerobatic Flight Demonstration Team has been thrilling audiences since 1946, pushing the ...
The four-wheel, 34-foot-long vehicle is built around the GE J79 engine from an F-4 Phantom II fighter jet that produces 15,000 pounds of thrust. Special Goodyear tires, brakes and a parachute were ...
This is why large aircraft back in the day, like the Boeing B-52, had eight engines. The frontline fighter jet in the 1960s was the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II. Its two G.E. J79 afterburning turbojets ...
In May 1960, the Convair 880 entered into service with Delta Air Lines (DL) under the slightly updated designation of 880-22m ...
pulsating Trembita engine. Its task is to destroy objects and exhaust the enemy’s anti-aircraft defense at a depth of up to 140 km. A pulse jet engine operates by generating thrust through a ...
The U.S. Air Force has dramatically plussed-up contracts with General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, both of which now have a ceiling of $3.5 billion, to continue work on prototype next-generation jet ...
Aviation and diesel fuels are made with very different engines and conditions in mind, which could lead to some dangerous complications if switched around. There are two main types of jet fuel ...
The USAF has announced a new $7 billion cash injection into its next-generation adaptive propulsion (NGAP) program.
The tests were aimed at verifying the performance of the X-59's General Electric F414-GE-100 jet engine, a modified version of the engine used in Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet flown by the U.S. Navy.