Thirty years ago, GE Aerospace transformed commercial aviation with a material swap that most ...

Safran Aircraft Engines is ramping up system-level testing for a future open-fan engine as it builds towards full-scale ...

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Carbon fiber composites aren't a new thing in jet engine fan blades, including GE Aviation's. But every so often GE engineers have to redesign them to take advantage of advances in carbon composite ...

"Air cooling" is a bit of a misnomer, since air alone couldn't cool the Porsche 911. A variety of supplementary devices ...

Rolls-Royce announced construction of its UltraFan engine. The fan is over 11 feet across and made of carbon titanium blades. The engine saves a neat 25 percent emissions over Rolls-Royce’s original ...

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 ...