The six-person Car and Driver team was fielding a 1985 Pontiac Fiero, famous in its day for throwing engine rods and catching fire.
Ryu and Sugiyama (1994) studied the dynamic stability of cantilever Timoshenko beams under Beck's loading by modeling the effect of the rocket-throwing engine as a follower load and a concentrated mass.
Here, after the failure of an initial assault, a small rock-throwing engine was employed, while three large engines (probably trebuchet, using a counter-weight mechanism), were constructed.
General Electric, Allison Division of General Motors, and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft have all run "torture tests" on engines, throwing ice pellets, water, animal carcasses and metal objects into them; no harm has resulted.
"You throw an engine block down there, and you'll never see it".
Locke threw the engine into reverse gear, a process which took ten seconds to engage.
The young man at the wheel gestured and threw the engine into gear.
The same basic principle was applied to large stone-throwing engines.
Once and very abruptly, a glimpse in Il milione is obtained of them acting as military advisers during the siege of "Saianfu" (formerly Xiangyang, now Xiangfan), a city that was finally taken, according to Marco, thanks to some "great mangonels" (missile-throwing engines) built according to the Polos' specifications.
Nagl's driver, Specialist James Regester, who goes by the nickname Reggie, backed up a few inches -- that was all the space he had -- and revved the engine, throwing it into first and jumping the median in a lurching heave that rocked Nagl back and forth in the cabin.
Initially, gunpowder mixtures were utilised through traditional engines and throwing mechanisms; containers and grenades were thrown by mangonels and trebuchets, and explosive rockets and arrows were developed, along with gunpowder flamethrowers.
