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Italy’s Avio Aero, Japan’s IHI Corporation and Rolls-Royce say they have advanced their work in additive manufacturing, ...

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Jet engines can't just start with the push of a button. We explain what jets need to get them going, and why there needs to be more than one option.

Since the 1960s engineers around the world have been fiddling with a novel type of jet called a rotating detonation engine (RDE), but it has never got beyond the experimental stage. That could be ...

The search for new solutions for engine ignition systems and combustion of lean air-gas mixtures has led to the application of a two-stage combustion system, previously also known as turbulent jet ...