In boyish zeal, he rehashes the dubious British claims to have invented television and the jet engine.
Britain invented the jet engine and radar and supplied much of the heavy cognitive lifting for the computer and biotechnology industries.
Once the jet engine allowed mass air travel, pampering and soothing stopped and the whiff of romance became an advertising copywriter's fiction.
Then they realized people would have to fly without the reassuring blur of propellers turning and dropped the jet engine like a hot potato.
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"Disastrous flooding puts near 7 feet of flow in buildings in the jet engine test facility at Kelly AFB, " the National Weather Service said.
The idea that you could render in the browser but not get bottlenecked by webkit is the equivalen of Lugg removing the shaft from the jet engine.
When aeronautical engineers started perfecting the jet engine (a process that took a few decades), they dreamed of airplanes that would move much faster and carry much heavier payloads.
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Nazi aerospace engineers pioneered the jet engine and their early work on rockets laid the foundations for the post-war space programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union.
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This aircraft which has the capability to take off and land like a helicopter yet convert in flight to move horizontally like a conventional aircraft represents the most important single advance in aviation since the introduction of the jet engine.
This aircraft, which has been called the most important aviation development since the invention of the jet engine, has the ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly horizontally at speeds far in excess of those possible for helicopters.
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From the development of the jet engine and liquid crystal displays, from cracking the inner workings of DNA to pioneering work on Lithium-ion batteries, the country has all too often managed to break new scientific ground but then fail to capitalise on the vast potential that others then enjoy.
They also argue that competition could improve the operational performance and reliability of both engines, insulate the military from engine-related problems leading to fleet groundings, and bolster the jet-engine industrial base.
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All this is particularly painful for the Americans, because the jet-engine market is changing.
To provide some form of throttle to allow acceleration and deceleration, the vehicle's designers added the EJ200 jet engine.
The resulting military innovation will also transform civilian vehicles, much as military research created the Internet, GPS and the jet-engine and microchip industries.
But New Delhi insists the jet developed engine trouble and did not leave Indian-administered Kashmir, where a military campaign against Muslim militants is underway.
The single-engine jet is a departure from the old idea that redundancy equals safety.
The Rolls-Royce Crosspointe jet engine disc manufacturing facility the President will visit is an example of how insourcing means companies from around the world are creating new, good paying jobs here at home.
In doing so, the British jet-engine maker improved its employer brand score significantly.
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The four-engine jet left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday, but was grounded at the Evreux-Fauville airbase until Tuesday to allow the "minor technical fault" to be fixed.
One way to increase the efficiency of a high-bypass jet engine is to turn the fan into an open rotor, a bit like returning to propellers, but using two rings of stubby counter-rotating blades.
Higgins also said Sunday that divers were unable to get to what is apparently the jet's left engine on the river bottom.
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Secondly, if it enters a jet engine the intense heat of the engine can fuse it to the interior of the engine with a caking of hot glass, which ultimately can cause the engine to cut out completely.
Even in its test flights in 2010 and 2011, the jet experienced electrical problems and engine failures, CNN reports.
Cirrus said that CAIGA will bring the resources to expedite development of the single-engine Vision jet, which could now achieve FAA certification and initial deliveries in mid-2014.
The key is a unique motor, the Sabre, which serves as jet engine and rocket rolled into one.
The company identified 17 products that met its standard of providing "significant and measurable environmental performance advantages, " including a Lexan film that replaces conventional paint, Harmony water-conserving washing machines, the new fuel-efficient GEnx jet engine and GE's Evolution locomotive, a 208-ton, 4, 400hp workhorse that burns 3% less fuel and puts out 40% less pollution than its immediate predecessor.
Personally, I have my eye on an even smaller jet, the rumored single-engine, four-seat pocket-rocket from Cirrus Design. (If the one engine fails, pull a lever and a parachute will float you and the plane to a soft landing.) One of the two brothers who founded Cirrus told me the Cirrus jet would go 300 knots, or 345 miles per hour.
Imagine if the Air Force had decided in the early 1950s that it would protect jet engine secrets.
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