Chrysler's best and brightest minds worked hard to not only miniaturize the turbine engine but also make it work with a car's ...

Two primary material systems are used in the hot section of turbine engines today. Coated nickel-based superalloys can tolerate up to about 2,200°F — well short of the US Department of Energy ...

Technical difficulties were never fully overcome, the increasing cost of fuel made gas turbine cars uneconomic to run, and meanwhile by the 1960s the piston engine had improved immeasurably over ...

Sean Rader, director of maintenance at King Aero Management, repurposed scrap parts to build a demo turbine jet engine with cutaways for the program. The brightly-colored demo – which resembles ...