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One of GM’s most complicated engines had no crankshaft, four pistons, two cylinders, a turbine, and could run on whale oil
Automotive history is full of dead ends that eventually get lost to time. Seventy years ago, the free-piston engine was ...
Gas turbine engines, most commonly encountered deafening you in the back row of a cross-country commercial flight, have also been used in automobiles, and prototype automobiles, for over 60 years. If ...
The Chrysler Turbine Car did not just sound like the future. For a brief moment in the early 1960s, it put jet technology in American driveways and made a radical alternative to pistons feel almost ...
Engineers have long battled a problem that can cause loud, damaging oscillations inside gas turbines and aircraft engines: combustion instability. These unwanted pressure fluctuations create ...
Chromalloy opened a new specialty-machining center for finishing gas-turbine engine parts in Guaymas, Mexico. It has been operating at an adjacent location since 2009, but it broke ground in June for ...
In addition to the MT30 construction contract, Rolls-Royce signed design/development agreements with BAE Systems for the new frigate’ steering gear, stabilizing fins, and mission bay handling ...
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