There are a variety of reasons why commercial airlines want more and more fuel-efficient aircraft. First, airlines are aiming to meet their publicly stated sustainability goals. Second, carriers have ...

There are very few machines as complex to build as a turbojet engine. The turbine blades on a commercial airliner are grown from a single crystal of metal. The engineering tolerances are crazy, and ...

NASA is to test a 57%-scale fan for a turbofan combined cycle engine. This follows work that has continued progress made with the cancelled NASA Next Generation Launch Technology programme's ...

The flight crew of a Boeing 747-400 noticed a pronounced EGT exceedance after leveling off at FL380 followed by vibrations that were outside of specified limits. Post-incident investigation revealed ...