Manufacturer claims novel design has weight advantage over conventional powerplants A US firm claims a 5:1 thrust-to-weight advantage over conventional engines for a novel gas turbine in which the ...

The smallest axial flow gas turbine was brought to the show by Isle of Man engineering firm Bladon Jets. Weighing just 2kg (4.4lb), the engine is the brainchild of engineer Chris Bladon and has been ...

Turbine flow design has changed little since their invention in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries due to the simplicity and power of these devices to extract energy from the movement of a ...

BorgWarner has been granted a patent for a turbocharger turbine with a variable turbine geometry cartridge that separates exhaust gas flows from different engine cylinders. The design includes fixed ...