In 1967, legendary racing driver Parnelli Jones was positively dominating the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. With 196 of 200 total laps completed and Jones ahead by nearly a full lap, victory seemed ...

Another design pioneer, the Lotus 56 is a groundbreaking turbine-powered IndyCar developed in 1967. Although it carries the Lotus name, the 56 is an all-American STP-Paxton, designed after the car ...

There are very few machines as complex to build as a turbojet engine. The turbine blades on a commercial airliner are grown from a single crystal of metal. The engineering tolerances are crazy ...

In the present forms of turbines in which the energy is transmitted by pressure, reaction or impact, as in the De Laval, Parsons, and Curtiss types, more or less sudden changes both of speed and ...

The very gifted Walker raced two revolutionary Grand Prix Lotuses in 1971-72: the four-wheel-drive, gas-turbine powered Lotus ...

It’s usually much easier just to throw a few panels and a battery together than it is to have a working turbine with many moving parts that need to be maintained when only a small amount of ...

An outline of the Lotus Creek Wind Farm. Each of the 46 wind turbines will be capable of producing 7MW of energy, and together can generate enough renewable power each year to supply about 189,000 ...

They were there to continue the dismantling of wind turbines that had been generating electricity for the last 28 years. A similar scene can be witnessed across the world as the first wave of wind ...

Wind turbine technicians, also known as wind techs, are the professionals in charge of inspecting and maintaining wind turbines. That means that most of their days are spent way up high in a ...

Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water. Today, more and more wind turbines wring electricity from the breeze. Over the past decade, wind turbine use has increased more ...

Wind turbine blades are airfoil-shaped blades that harness wind energy and drive the rotor of a wind turbine. The airfoil-shaped-design (which provides lift in a fixed wing aircraft) is used to allow ...