The 20th century was the age of the internal combustion engine. The fruits of industrial progress produced power plants tasked with everything from running generators to powering warplanes. The First ...

To Mike Nieman, the smell of his large Pratt & Whitney “Wasp Major” radial aircraft engine running is “the smell of victory.” “That smell is of a working engine that made this country free,” said the ...

This means the blisks can even be run on the runway without the turbogenerator, reducing noise and fuel costs, and this efficiency is maintained when the turbogenerator is running during low-speed ...