"Our country is one of five in the world to have full-cycle jet engine production. One of the most critical components is the turbine blade, which operates at extremely high speeds and temperatures.

There are very few machines as complex to build as a turbojet engine. The turbine blades on a commercial airliner ... from a diesel engine into a jet. The innovation here is using a lathe to ...

Jet engines work on the "suck ... air and ignited—bang—producing power. This hot, high-pressure air rushes past a set of turbine blades, causing them to spin. This turbine is connected ...