Despite these exacting requirements, it is possible to build a jet engine in the home workshop – and using a turbocharger is a great way to do that. (Video also embedded after the break.) ...

There are very few machines as complex to build as a turbojet engine. The turbine blades ... as far as we can tell — is a centrifugal flow turbine, or something that’s not terribly different ...

The earliest turbojets were primarily what is known as a centrifugal design ... Evolution of jet engine design led engineers to axial flow turbojets. Instead of compressing air perpendicular ...

Sir Frank Whittle who first patented his ideas in 1930 for the jet engine and which culminated in the worlds first ever successful liquid fuelled turbo- jet engine ground run on the 12th April ...