This video explains how a combustor inside of a jet engine works. There are dilution holes which serve multiple purposes.

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A white wide-body jet in the air, with one jet engine appearing on the right-hand wing - Dushlik/Getty Images The dawn of the jet age changed the landscape of commercial flight forever, giving rise to ...

Jet engine technology is among some of the most advanced means of propulsion in the skies today. From commercial airlines to military fighter planes, these massive engines can be heard roaring ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

In the endless pursuit of faster, more efficient travel, engineers have been cooking up all kinds of new forms of propulsion. One of the most interesting to emerge in the last decade is the electric ...

Damage to the hot section of the KLM Boeing 747 that encountered volcanic ash from Alaska’s Mount Redoubt on Dec. 14, 1989. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey An aircraft engine is like a big vacuum ...