Stoves have evolved quite a bit in recent years. We’ve seen the advent of induction stovetops and smart kitchen appliances—but what of the actual cast iron pots we put on top of them? “What really has ...

Emil E. Werstler of Manchester, who worked on the design for many advances in jet engines while an engineer at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft for more than 30 years, died May 3 at his home following a long ...

Bill Simpkin (left) is working with UTA engineering professor Donald Wilson (right) and students including Warren Freitas on his idea of using nuclear plants’ excess heat to power former coal power ...

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SpaceX almost died aboard a C-17 jet above Hawaii. In 2008, before the company had successfully launched a single rocket, two dozen SpaceX engineers were transporting its Falcon 1 rocket to Hawaii ...

Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in. The ...

I spend a lot of time with jet engines as part of my PhD, trying to improve them. This one is a Concorde engine — it’s a demonstration model that’s used to show where the various components of the ...

In the late 1930s, the jet engine was confined to a collection of sketches produced by a British engineer. His initial designs were ignored, but the blueprints would end up revolutionising the planes ...

Customs agents in Long Beach were shocked after opening boxes labeled “House Hold Goods” bound for Iran and finding thousands of documents outlining secret information on the military’s $392-billion ...

The secret to success is always striving to outdo yourself. At least, that’s what one engineer from the UK believes and, after setting a world record in 2015, he is now working on breaking it. That ...

One Princeton Professor has a lofty goal: end the nation's reliance on oil for jet travel. With potentially major benefits for energy security and the environment riding upon his success, he is ...

A flight engineer who was a passenger on the missing Malaysia Airlines plane is being investigated as the suspicion that it was hijacked hardens. The aviation engineer is Mohd Khairul Amri Selamat, 29 ...