Just like a car alternator is an electric motor when wired up backwards, that type of A/C compressor is pretty much the same as the engine in, say, a Mk 48 torpedo.

We touched on a variety of onboard air systems last month (“Haul-Along Huffers,” Mar. ’14), and this month we show you a new version of an old reliable system, the engine-driven compressor ...

Turbojet engines are an incredible piece of 20th century engineering that except for some edge cases, have mostly been replaced by Turbofans. Still, even the most basic early designs were groundbre… ...

Hellion's Urist specs a 67 to 69mm compressor side with a 68 to 75mm exhaust turbine. The 350 should err on the small side, a 400 on the high side. "More cubic inches need more flow," Urist says.

Powered with a liquid-cooled, three-cylinder Kohler diesel engine, the CPS 185 air compressor supports pneumatic handheld tools for demolition, construction or on-site maintenance.

The following footage was shot by Ben Ramsay and his brother on Jan. 15, 2014, at RAF Lakenheath, UK. It shows a local based F-15E Strike Eagle on take off from British base suffering a dramatic ...

An engine compressor stall during a routine touch-and-go flight certification led to a fatal T-38 Talon trainer crash at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, in November, according to a recent Accident ...

But no turbojet engine compressor—the rotating disks and blades at the face of the engine that compress the air before it is mixed with fuel—is capable of handling supersonic air flow.

Turning an A/C Compressor Into a Gas-Burning Internal Combustion Engine Most air conditioner compressors are just tiny piston engines, but it still takes some ingenuity to convert one to run via ...

We touched on a variety of onboard air systems last month (“Haul-Along Huffers,” Mar. ’14), and this month we show you a new version of an old reliable system, the engine-driven compressor ...