O n March 23rd, a United Airlines Boeing 767-300ER got blown back by the jet blast of a British Airways Airbus A320neo at London Heathrow Airport (LHR). The A320neo had lined up o ...

This fast-moving air draws the surrounding air through the ring, giving the effect of a large conventional ... eventually forming a roaring jet engine flame exhaust behind it.

When you're flying on a commercial jet ... venting the exhaust forward through cascade veins. Some thrust reversers also open ...

The afterburner, which is a long extension at the back of the engine, combines much of the remaining oxygen with jet fuel, squirted into the high-speed exhaust stream from the engine’s turbine ...

Any student new to the principles of fluid dynamics will be familiar with Bernoulli’s principle and the Venturi effect ... to be a stand-in for a model jet engine, based around a high-powered ...