These improvements were accomplished thanks to the addition of a pivoting fuel nozzle mechanism and first-stage turbine ... system, the A-831 was radically different from a standard combustion ...

The AGT1500 gas turbine engine works by using an air inlet to draw in air. This air is then compressed, mixed with fuel, and ...

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 ...

Turbojet engines ... fuel is burned, and the reaction produces work. In a turbojet, a compressor compresses air. Fuel is added in a combustor and ignited, and the expanding exhaust drives a ...

Power mechanics students at Jefferson County Joint Vocational School got revved up after constructing a jet engine model in their lab. Instructor Fred Jones said senior Luke Linscott and junior Kendal ...