The single-engine jet is a departure from the old idea that redundancy equals safety.
You may not know this, but the market has already accepted single-engine jet aircraft.
The wide-body, twin-engine jet relies on a complex network of electrical systems rather than traditional pneumatic systems.
All three single turboprops have superb safety records, a sure sign that single-engine jet aircraft can be successful.
Cirrus is considering a single-engine jet aircraft to compete with single turboprops from New Piper and EADS Socata.
Modern manufacturing processes combined with electronic fuel control and engine diagnostics make a single-engine jet much safer than earlier models.
The four-engine jet left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday, but was grounded at the Evreux-Fauville airbase until Tuesday to allow the "minor technical fault" to be fixed.
Upon reaching 41, 000 I pulled the Mustang's throttles back to 220 pounds per hour per engine of Jet A fuel.
Cirrus said that CAIGA will bring the resources to expedite development of the single-engine Vision jet, which could now achieve FAA certification and initial deliveries in mid-2014.
Same thing with condemned water heaters and jet engine maintenance: Just let the pros do it.
But what about things like the foreign service pay, an alternate F-35 jet engine?
Stand 300 feet from a jet engine, and you'll get hit with 120 decibels.
Sam Williams has designed a jet engine that weighs 85 pounds for Eclipse Aviation.
Often it's Michael who tries to act as a throttle to Big Daddy's jet engine.
In boyish zeal, he rehashes the dubious British claims to have invented television and the jet engine.
It will be powered by a combination of a hybrid rocket and a jet engine from a Eurofighter-Typhoon.
Imagine if the Air Force had decided in the early 1950s that it would protect jet engine secrets.
The key is a unique motor, the Sabre, which serves as jet engine and rocket rolled into one.
However high-bypass engines are built in the future, at their core they will still have a basic jet engine.
To provide some form of throttle to allow acceleration and deceleration, the vehicle's designers added the EJ200 jet engine.
Skeptics questioned whether a gearbox was an unnecessary complication for a jet engine.
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He runs advanced composite materials, which makes a kind of artificial diamond used to cut and shape jet engine parts.
Just as a razor manufacturer makes big money selling blades, he explains, jet engine makers profit most from replacement parts.
As the wine passes through the funnel, air sucks into the holes making a sound like a very small jet engine.
Both trace their corporate histories to the 1800s, both are based in Connecticut and both are leaders in jet engine manufacturing.
Britain invented the jet engine and radar and supplied much of the heavy cognitive lifting for the computer and biotechnology industries.
So GE brags about the terabyte of data that flows out of a single jet engine on a single cross-country flight.
Once the jet engine allowed mass air travel, pampering and soothing stopped and the whiff of romance became an advertising copywriter's fiction.
Both BA and KLM, after all, had direct experience of what flying through volcanic ash can do to a high-bypass turbofan jet engine.
There is another way to build a greener jet engine: by bypassing the turbine to an even greater extent, with an open rotor.
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