Thirty-one Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates spent four weeks this year designing, building and hot-firing ...

In the minds of the majority of individuals when aircraft engines are considered, an image of either revolving propellers or obnoxious jet engines comes to mind. The systems have characterized decades ...

The idea of a hybrid-electric engine for supersonic aircraft may elicit a similar initial response, but there is some very firm engineering logic behind it. Put simply, conventional supersonic engines ...

The roots of the jet engine can be traced back to before World War II, and they generally still work on the same principles despite having evolved quite a bit since then. Yet there are still ...