It's the stuff of fantasy: jet fuel making a dieselvehicle tak e off like, well, a jet. But what really happens if you put jet fuel in your diesel's tank?

The closed-cycle rocket engine design. Image via Wikipedia The ... It would be twice as big as the NK-33, with five times the thrust of a jumbo jet. The RD-180 was not a slam dunk design, however.

India has offered its Pinaka rocket system to France amid finalizing the purchase of 26 Rafale-Marine jets and collaboration ...

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

Taking place two years after debuting its full rocket ... Jet used by Virgin Orbit comes from another Branson company, Virgin Atlantic Airways. Source: Planespotters.net Four General Electric CF6 ...

It is a hybrid between a conventional jet engine, and a rocket system powered by liquid oxygen. The system will be reusable, much like an aeroplane, with no need to jettison expensive fuel tanks ...

And systems like the Bell Rocket Belt were actually rocket packs ... had in terms of enough propulsive force in a small form. Jet engines, I mean, they haven't been around that long.

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...