A Detonation Engine Prototyped Using Resin Printing
Over the years [Integza] has blown up or melted many types of jet engine, including the humble pulsejet. Earlier improvements revolved around pumping in more fuel, or forced air intakes,
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High Speed RC Jet Car is a Harsh Teacher
Making machines go fast has always been a seemingly unavoidable impulse for humans. With the advent of radio control, it’s possible to get a taste of the rush without putting
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This Jet Engine Will See You Through
Have you ever wished you could peer inside a complex machine while it was still running? We sort of can with simulations and the CAD tools we have today, but
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Adding Voluminous Joy to a DIY Turbojet With a DIY Afterburner
You don’t happen to own and operate your own turbojet engine, do you? If you do, have you ever had the urge to “kick the tires and light the fires”?
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3D Printing A Water-Cooled Jet Engine?
Everybody knows the trick to holding a candle flame to a balloon without it bursting — that of adding a little water before the air to absorb the heat from
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Electric Jet Engine Uses 3D Printed Compressor, Skips The Turbine Altogether.
Turbojet engines are an incredible piece of 20th century engineering that except for some edge cases, have mostly been replaced by Turbofans. Still, even the most basic early designs were
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The Air Multiplier Fan Principle, Applied To A Jet Engine
Many readers will be familiar with the Dyson Air Multiplier, an ingenious bladeless fan design in which a compressor pushes jets of air from the inside edge of a large
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