In 1994, the X-31 demonstrator was fitted with what German program managers called a “poor man’s thrust ... able to rely on thrust vectoring would let a pilot enter what’s essentially ...

No, that feeling is the result of a special component of the jet engines aptly named the thrust reversers. It's thanks to the thrust reversers that commercial jets can slow to a safe stop on the ...

The "car" in question is the Thrust SSC, and it managed to achieve that record thanks to a couple of Rolls-Royce Spey 202 jet engines. The top speed achieved by the SSC Thrust, as recorded by the ...