Picture a jet engine stripped of its outer casing, with massive fan blades spinning freely in the open air like an oversized propeller mounted ahead of the wings. The exposed blades, sweeping through ...

The design of present-day aircraft and everything related to them has largely remained the same for decades. A central metal cylinder with wings to either side, on which the aircraft's engines are ...

Airbus is teasing technologies that could enable its next-generation single-aisle jet, including innovative engine and wing designs aimed at boosting efficiency. The Toulouse-based airframer provided ...

GE Aerospace in 2025 plans to use two of the world’s fastest computers, both at US-government-funded research facilities, to study how its open-fan engine concept will integrate with an aircraft’s ...

This commercial aircraft engine domination supports the US domination of military jets. The high tech alloys and advanced enables the military jet engines to be more fuel efficient, reliable and ...

Enormous engines like the GE90 had to be developed to power the 777, primarily because it has two turbofans rather than four.

General Electric (GE) has been in operation for over 100 years and most consumers best know the brand for its many appliances, but that's not all it manufactures. From women-focused medical devices to ...

The blade is being flown on a private jet to undergo examination Tuesday. One of the fan blades that was fractured in the Pratt and Whitney engine that failed during United Airlines Flight 328 showed ...

SEATTLE — Last year, two Southwest Airlines 737 Max jets lost engines on takeoff after striking large birds, emergencies made much more serious when smoke and fumes penetrated inside the airplanes.