engines

This Wooden V12 Ferarri Engine Won’t Get You Very Far

It’s gorgeously intricate and a hefty 23kg, but don’t expect this hand-carved engine to do more than impress your friends. That’s OK, though – at $US6000 on eBay, it’s probably the closest to Ferarri ownership you’ll get.

October 22, 2010
Science

What Do Jet Engines And LED Light Bulbs Have In Common?

It’s not the setup for a joke. Jets and light bulbs really do have something in common now that GE is using jet engine cooling mechanisms inside bright, lightweight, low-energy LED bulbs. You’ll just have to wait to buy them.

August 25, 2010
Cars

A Little Extra Engine Noise For Your Prius

Toyota is offering an optional $US148 speaker system for your Prius when it’s on battery mode that lets pedestrians – especially blind pedestrians – know that you’re coming. Great idea, but it’s strange that it’s optional.

August 19, 2010
Cars

Jet Engine Tested Aboard The USS Enterprise

This photo, taken on August 12, shows sailors testing an F414-GE-400 jet engine on board the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, at some undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean. The darkness you can see is the sea at night.

August 10, 2010
Cars

Sailplane Launches Itself With Retractable Jet

A creative bunch of tinkerers think the recent trend of self-launching gliders needs a bit of a boost. So instead of outfitting their high performance sailplane with an electric or small piston motor, they’ve attached a jet engine that folds neatly into the fuselage.

August 7, 2010
Science

This School Bus Goes 590km/h On Fiery Rocket Power

What happens when you strap the jet engine from a Phantom fighter plane to the back of a yellow school bus? The awesomest fire-propelled death ride around. And yes, there is a video.

July 27, 2010
Science

This Alluring Model Engine Works – But It Shouldn’t

The first thing you’ll want to do is to watch the video of this quirky, high-style model engine in action. Then you’ll want to see how – or maybe why – it works. And that’s where things get sticky.

April 13, 2010
Cars

Space Shuttle’s Engines Are Shower Heads From Hell

A NASA engineer saw our image of the space shuttle Discovery’s engines and thought it wasn’t good enough. She sent us these exclusive pictures looking right inside the noozles. Surprise: It looks exactly like a shower head. Zoom in!

April 10, 2010
Cars

A Rare Look Into The Space Shuttle’s Engines

I always wanted to know how a rocket engine looked right from below, peeking into its nozzles. So I got a high definition NASA photography of Discovery approaching the ISS, and passed it through Photoshop. Here’s the result.

January 18, 2010
Cars

FREE: NASA Space Shuttle Engines

Since no one wanted to buy the space shuttles when NASA first offered them up for sale, the agency has decided to slash the price to a more modest $US28.8 million each. And the engines? Free (pay only S+H).

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