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(Please Don’t) Build a Jet Engine from a Toilet Paper Holder
Turbo charger Jet Engines have long been considered one of the holy grails of backyard engineering. This is with good reason – they’re hard to build, and even harder to run. Many a turbo has met an...
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You Might Be Cool, But You’re Not Gas Turbine Motorcycle Cool
For the last four and a half years, [Anders] has been working on a motorcycle project. This isn’t just any old Harley covering a garage floor with oil – this is a gas turbine powered bike built to...
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Retrotechtacular: Railroads In The Jet Age
The front of the Soviet jet train on a monument in Tver, Russia. By Eskimozzz [PD], via Wikimedia Commons.It started with one of those odd links that pop up from time to time on Hacker News: “The...
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Daedalus Jet Suit Takes to the Skies
[Richard Browning] wants to fly like Daedalus. To us, it looks a bit more like Iron Man. [Browning] is working on project Daedalus, a flight suit powered by six jet engines. These turbines are exactly...
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The Last Interesting Chrysler Had a Gas Turbine Engine
The piston engine has been the king of the transportation industry for well over a century now. It has been manufactured so much that it has become a sort of general-purpose machine that can be used to...
View ArticleYour Drone Is Cool, But It’s No Jet Fighter
There are some communities with whom our happy band of hardware hackers share a lot in common, but with whom we don’t often associate. The more workshop-orientated end of the car modification or...
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Why Gas Turbines Rule the World
It is an interesting fact that the most efficient way to generate electricity — at least so far — is to spin the shaft of a generator. The only real question is how you spin it. Falling water works....
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