Pilots follow a specific procedure to achieve successful engine starts. In this video, key steps are outlined, including the First Officer announcing the engine start, selecting the Engine Start ...

In the simplest terms, a jet engine works like this: At the front, fans suck in air and pull it into a compressor, which “squeezes” it. Now pressurized, the air combines with jet fuel and ignites.

A jet engine with no moving parts. Sounds like something out of Dune.But a Baltimore start-up successfully flight-tested a scaled version to prove that the concept worked.

For starters, a turbofan has a fan attached at the front of it, used to send some air to the core of the engine and some around the core. They're also more fuel-efficient than their turbojet ...

It covers the design and production of 30 engines to start, each with around 200 pounds of thrust. In May, Beehive cut the ribbon on a $4 million, 60,000-square-foot facility in West Knoxville.