Jet engines are relatively simple in their basic design, but advancements in gas turbine engine technology have mostly done away with the cool-looking bucket-type reverse thrust systems. These thrust ...
Reverse-Flow CoolingI've subscribed to HPP magazine since 1984-it's a great magazine. I remember that the first Pontiac V-8s had reverse-flow cooling from the factory. Can a standard '65-'79 Pontiac ...
As part of a Proof of Concept, for the first time, the U.S. Air Force turned a C-5M Super Galaxy into an aerial refueler for a KC-10 tanker. On Dec. 12, 2023, a C-5M Super Galaxy and a KC-10 Extender ...
The US Air Force (USAF) has successfully tested a new aerial refuelling technique known as reverse flow, in which a transport aircraft transfers jet fuel to a tanker. The demonstration, which took ...
It wasn’t that long ago a 2.7L V-6 with a compacted-graphite-iron (CGI) block, twin turbos, reverse-flow cooling, split-mains, variable-displacement oil pump, deep-sump oil pan and direct-injection ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pratt & Whitney makes the engines that power planes through turbulence. Such engineering prowess is little help ...
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