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

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 ...

From an open-fan design to carbon-fibre composite fan blades, this company is reimagining jet engines. CFM International is a ...

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 ...

If you ask anyone working in the aviation industry what they think the most important component of modern-day planes is, chances are the vast majority may tell you that it is the jet engine. Also ...

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is an iconic and distinctive aircraft because, in a world of quad and twinjet aircraft, this is a trijet. However, the third jet, mounted just below the tail fin, is fairly ...

We are taught from a very young age that aircraft generally hide fuel tanks inside their wings. That remains true, for the most part, but now that a new breed of aircraft called vertical take-off and ...

Discover the surprising design differences between the engines of the Boeing 747-8 and 787 Dreamliner, and how they impact ...