Turbojet engines are an incredible piece of 20th century engineering that except for some edge cases, have mostly been replaced by Turbofans. Still, even the most basic early designs were ...

There are very few machines as complex to build as a turbojet engine. The turbine blades on a commercial airliner are grown from a single crystal of metal. The engineering tolerances are crazy ...

Laser shock peening, or more simply laser peening, is an effective method of increasing the resistance of gas turbine engine compressor and fan blades in aircraft to foreign object damage and ...