Unleaded gas, jet fuel ... Even though the turbine engine was lighter and had fewer moving parts than a normal piston engine, ...

A jet engine is any engine that can propel an aircraft of some kind via rearward expulsion of a jet of fluid, typically a hot exhaust gas that the engine generates by drawing in fuel from the ...

Technical difficulties were never fully overcome, the increasing cost of fuel made gas turbine cars uneconomic to run, and meanwhile by the 1960s the piston engine had improved immeasurably over ...

Traditionally applied to aircraft parts, the technology also shows ... is an effective method of increasing the resistance of gas turbine engine compressor and fan blades in aircraft to foreign ...