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Unveiled at the 1964 World's Fair, Ford's "Big Red" turbine truck was a marvel of engineering: 13 feet tall, 96 feet long, and powered by a military-grade jet engine. It promised a revolution in ...
Sean Rader, director of maintenance at King Aero Management, repurposed scrap parts to build a demo turbine jet engine with cutaways for the program. The brightly-colored demo – which resembles ...
In the 1960s, Chrysler built a handful of cars powered by aircraft-style turbine engines. And where does one take a turbine when it's in need of a rebuild? To the original manufacturer ...
Arguably as much a motorhome as it is a tiny house, the Rubishack, by Canada's Rubitracks, has its own engine and off ... and a roll-up bed. Built in a 2-MW wind turbine's nacelle, this tiny ...
I’m curious if the big aircraft turbine prolusion system ... too. So, an engine in the bed and one under the bed – this is one cool truck, although that flamethrower blaze at the rear might ...
Installed in an Indy-type Kurtis 500 chassis, a Boeing engine developing 195 hp was the most serious turbine threat until 1966 (although the car was used occasionally for Firestone tire development).
The engine is the lifeblood of a car. It converts fuel, usually gasoline, into physical motion that turns the wheels and makes the vehicles go. Over the years, as technology advanced, so too did ...
This is a major challenge for engine manufacturers, and one company is stepping up to the plate. Trick-Cycle Turbine Ltd. (TCT) is a South Dakota-based company led by inventor Reggie Huff that has ...
The incident took place at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. LONDON -- A person has died after being sucked up into the running turbine engine of a plane at Amsterdam’s international airport ...
Rover continued working with the turbine engine, though, seeing it as a viable power source for the future and one that could potentially power automobiles. The advantages of a turbine engine over ...
The Indian Space Research Organisation terminated the first hot test on an intermediate configuration of the semi-cryogenic engine following an unanticipated spike in the turbine pressure and ...
GE designed and built the T901 for the US Army under the service’s Improved Turbine Engine (ITE) programme – an effort to develop a powerplant for the army’s conceptual Future Armed ...