The main thing that makes a jet engine so dangerous to humans is the ... That suction is more than powerful enough to draw in and lift up an adult human, and with the many spinning blades within ...

A runway is a terrible place to repair an airplane engine. It's outside ... small and light enough to be stored on any commercial jet. The inflator's about half that size and weighs only 49 ...

The jet engine prototype can lift a one-kilogram steel ball over a 24-millimeter diameter quartz tube. There, the high-pressure air passes through a microwave ionization chamber, which converts it ...

But how exactly do airplanes fly? Flight requires two things: thrust and lift. Thrust is the forward motion provided by a propeller or jet engine. (A propeller, by the way, uses the same ...