A George Stone Technical College’s Aviation Maintenance Technology Program graduate and his employer have created a hands-on apparatus to help future students. Sean Rader, director of maintenance at ...

Bob Maddox’s stage name, Crazy Rocketman, is a misnomer. Maddox doesn’t build rockets. He builds pulse-jet engines. There’s a difference. As for the crazy part—that may be true. Maddox is the world’s ...

Rim-driven thrusters turn the normal propeller-motor arrangement inside out; rather than mounting the motor at the center of the propeller, they use a large hollow motor, with the blades attached to ...

Why did McDonnell Douglas design the C-17 Globemaster III with four engines instead of two or three? This question goes beyond a simple engineering choice; it touches on the aircraft’s mission profile ...