Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...

If you've ever stood near a runway and watched planes take to the skies, you've probably also been awestruck by the sheer size of the engines that make it all possible. On large commercial planes, ...

Speculation abounds as to the cause of the Air India airplane crash on June 12. One explanation so far is that both engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner failed, a highly unlikely event. A list ...

The Rolls-Royce UltraFan could be the powerplant of choice for next-generation aircraft.

Two years ago, in 2023, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the birth of the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program. The goal of the effort was to ...

From the 1970s through the 1990s, tri-jets were a common sight in our skies. Aircraft with three jet engines were capable of transoceanic flights and more fuel-efficient than four-engine aircraft like ...

Despite the original diesel fiasco in the 2010s — and the five automakers facing their own Dieselgate trial in the U.K. this year — diesel engines have definite benefits over their gasoline-powered ...

close-up of jet engine nacelle with a strake on the side - Dinujaya/Shutterstock There are many components that go into a jet engine, from combustors to compressors to those gigantic fans that are a ...