The long crankshafts of the latter suffered from an unacceptable amount of flex when engine designers began using higher compression ratios and higher rotational speeds.

The weather was appalling, and K7 suffered an engine failure when her air intakes collapsed and debris was drawn into the engine.

Styrene later explained that touring and promotional work suffered an abrupt end when she was run over by a fire engine in central London, suffering a fractured pelvis.

* On 4 October 1992 – El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo airplane heading to Tel Aviv, suffered physical engine separation of both right-wing engines (# 3 and # 4 ) just after taking off from Schiphol and crashed into an apartment building in the Bijlmer neighbourhood of Amsterdam while attempting to return to the airport.

During one of his first sorties, Gorton was involved in a brief dogfight over the South China Sea, after which he suffered engine failure and was forced to land on Bintan island, 40 km ( 25 mi ) south east of Singapore.

Neither Pixie was successful in competition, as both suffered forced landings with engine trouble.

The MiG-9 suffered from an unreliable engine and control problems.

The CSS Arkansas suffered the failure of the port engine while proceeding upriver during the battle to get into position to attack the USS Essex.

: Auxiliary Field 4 is named Peel Field for 2nd Lt. Garland O. Peel Jr., who died in the take-off crash of Martin B-12AM, 33-262, of the 387th School Squadron, 2 January 1942, when he suffered engine failure.

* On 18 May 1958, a Douglas DC-7 ( registered OO-SFA ) suffered a problem with its leftmost engine, whilst on a flight from Lisbon to Leopoldville with 56 passengers and nine crew members.

Unfortunately, the engine suffered from oil scavenging problems early on in its development, and although the problem was eventually solved, changes in the rules by FIA and ACO effectively doomed the future prospects of what could otherwise have been a competitive engine.

This was captured on 11 November 1940 when it suffered an overheated engine and was forced to land on the shingle beach at Orfordness, Suffolk.

Although McLaren suffered many Mercedes engine failures in 2002, Räikkönen scored 24 points and four podiums, and held his own against teammate David Coulthard.

His McLaren, especially the Mercedes engine, suffered repeated breakdowns, allowing him to complete just two of the first seven events.

At the, Räikkönen suffered a ten-place grid-penalty following the replacement of his new specification Mercedes Benz engine which failed in Friday practice.

A week later at the, Räikkönen suffered another Mercedes engine failure due to an oil leak ; his 2nd place qualifying place became 12th.

This engine was however extremely expensive, and suffered cam wear problems.

In 1952, driving single-handedly, his car suffered an engine failure in the last hour of the race with a four lap lead.

* On 26 May 1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004, which was headed to Wien-Schwechat International Airport in Vienna, suffered an in-flight deployment of the thrust reverser on the No. 1 engine after taking off from Don Mueang.

However the Australian personnel suffered an increasing number of misadventures with at least two crews being taken prisoner, either after being shot down or suffering engine failure.

On 22 Mar 1984, Boeing 737-275 of Pacific Western Airlines with 119 people on board ; suffered an uncontained engine failure on the # 1 engine during takeoff.

Frazer especially suffered as a luxury make from its plodding six-cylinder engine.

Once the soldiers from the barracks had to hold the ship from blowing away while Fogg revved the engine and got the tail up.

At 12,000 feet, Fiedler signaled `` release '', and started the roaring pulse-jet engine -- then streaked away from beneath the Heinkel.

* GM Atlas engine, a family of truck engines from General Motors

Assuming no loss of time when moving a car from one station to another, the longest stage on the assembly line determines the throughput ( 20 minutes for the engine installation ) so a car can be produced every 20 minutes, once the first car taking 35 minutes has been produced.

A rocket or rocket vehicle is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engine.

With capacity to produce up to 5, 000 engines a year by 100 specially trained personnel, like traditional Aston Martin engine production from Newport Pagnell, assembly of each unit is entrusted to a single technician from a pool of 30, with V8 and V12 variants assembled in under 20 hours.

They may notice a distinctive noise from its engine or the number of vapour trails it is leaving.

An increasing number of commercial buildings use a combined cycle with cogeneration to provide heating, often water heating, from the output of a natural gas reciprocating engine, gas turbine or stirling electric generator.

Refrigerators and air conditioners operating from the waste heat of a diesel engine exhaust, heater flue or solar collector are entering use.

* A signal from an engine order telegraph, a communications device used on a ship or submarine

Beechcraft is an American manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft, ranging from light single engine aircraft to business jets and light military transports.

" An alternative account says that the Germans who boarded Nicosian were killed by the freighter's engine room staff ; this report apparently came from the officer in command of the muleteers.

A small plane making a water landing or a boat having engine trouble can be carried away from its reported position by the current.

Ada Lovelace's note G on the analytical engine from 1842 describes an algorithm for generating Bernoulli numbers with Babbage's machine.

Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm Repco, which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 engine blocks from the defunct American Oldsmobile F85 road car project, and other off the shelf parts.

Booster Systems Engineer Jenny M. Howard acted quickly to command the crew to inhibit any further automatic SSME shutdowns based on readings from the remaining sensors, preventing the potential shutdown of a second engine and a possible abort mode that may have resulted in the loss of the vehicle and crew.

In 1991, a perfectly functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans.

* G2 from Gensym, a real-time business rules engine ( BRE )

The Carnot engine model was graphically expanded upon by Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron in 1834 and mathematically elaborated upon by Rudolf Clausius in 1857 and 66 from which the concept of entropy emerged.

A heat engine acts by transferring energy from a warm region to a cool region of space and, in the process, converting some of that energy to mechanical work.