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Types of marine diesel engines
There are two types of marine diesel engines: two-stroke and four-stroke. Two Stroke Cycle Starting with the piston at bottom…
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The Airline Metro System
When I was travelling in Chile a short while ago I took a flight from the capital Santiago de Chile…
Marine diesel engine 3 min read
Marine Diesel Engines
I was first introduced to a marine diesel engine in the form of a Caterpillar (CAT) inboard engine in my…
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Milestones in Aircraft Structural Design
Although the exploitation of advanced composite materials in the aerospace industry is steadily increasing, high strength metallic materials, particularly aluminium…
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Human Fallibility in Aviation II: Case Study
Vanity Fair recently featured an excellent article on Air France Flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009. It is a…
Marine diesel engine 7 min read
Engine performance Calculation
Engine performance is an indication of the degree of success of the engine performs its assigned task, i.e. the conversion of…
Basics 5 min read
Human Fallibility in Aviation
This blog has focused much on the technical side of aviation. One of the biggest drivers in civil aviation is…
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Big Data in Aerospace
“Big data” is all abuzz in the media these days. As more and more people are connected to the internet…
Marine diesel engine 1 min read
Types of Pistons
Pistons can be classified in several ways but for the purposes of simplicity we will consider only the difference between…
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The History of Rocket Science
Rocket technology has evolved for more than 2000 years. Today’s rockets are a product of a long tradition of ingenuity…
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What is the construction of a marine diesel engine piston used on board ships?
Introduction We started to learn about one of the most important marine diesel engine components namely the piston in the previous article.…
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Rocket Science 101: Operating Principles
In a previous post we covered the history of rocketry over the last 2000 years. By means of the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation we also…
