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How It Works: The Dreamliner's Super-Efficient Powerplant
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Is There Really No Way to Keep a Goose Out of a Jet Engine?
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A Naked Engine For Cleaner Flights
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What Are You Doing Today, iForge?
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Anyone Can Build an Enormous Next-Generation Jet Engine (In Holographic 3-D)
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Homemade Jetpack Designed To Reach An Altitude Of 25,000 Feet
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Win Winter With These Jet-Powered Projects
DIY Put a jet on it! These three jet-powered vehicles will put your average sled to shame.
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How It Works: The Dreamliner's Super-Efficient Powerplant
Technology The GEnx engine, the powerplant of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, burns 15 percent less fuel than conventional jet engines by using fewer components and lighter composite parts. Flying in 2009,...
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Is There Really No Way to Keep a Goose Out of a Jet Engine?
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You Built What!? A Closer Look at The Jet-Powered ATV
DIY PopSci’s builder-in-residence outfits his four-wheeler with a screaming turbine When John Carnett—Popular Science staff photographer, inventor and tinkerer-about-town—began confiding in people...
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Build Your Own Turbojet? Some People Do
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A Naked Engine For Cleaner Flights
Technology A jet engine shelved in the '80s could improve airplane fuel economy today In 1983, engineers at General Electric experimented with an "unducted fan" engine. Without the external casing,...
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All Jet Everything at World Maker Faire NYC
DIY I love Maker Faire. I've had a blast with makers and their wild creations in San Francisco and in Austin, but this past weekend, Make's traveling DIY circus came right to my… I love Maker Faire....
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What Are You Doing Today, iForge?
Technology Private industry needs to supercompute too. Today, Rolls Royce takes NCSA's iForge out for a spin Over the last week, we managed to get some of the nation's biggest and baddest...
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Anyone Can Build an Enormous Next-Generation Jet Engine (In Holographic 3-D)
Technology Building a next-generation jet engine isn’t easy, but from the cool confines of a blacked out holographic chamber in Brooklyn, it can at least be easier. Here, GE and its… Building a...
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Homemade Jetpack Designed To Reach An Altitude Of 25,000 Feet
DIY But, uh, how do you land? It's 2013, so we've all been wondering: Where's my jetpack? The future won't have truly arrived until we can strap into a backpack and fly ourselves around town. And...
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Win Winter With These Jet-Powered Projects
DIY Put a jet on it! These three jet-powered vehicles will put your average sled to shame. These three jet-powered vehicles will put your average sled to shame.
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