Jet engines work on the "suck ... The air is then compressed in the next stage of the engine—this is the ‘squeeze’ part. A second fan increases the pressure in the air by around eight ...

Turbo charger Jet Engines have long been considered one of the holy grails of backyard engineering. This is with good reason – they’re hard to build, and even harder to run. Many a turbo has ...

The innovation here is using a lathe to machine the compressor stages by mounting an end mill ... powered by a handmade jet engine. This is an enormous fiberglass plane with a homebrew engine ...