The Largest Commercial Jet Engine On Earth Also Has Large And Unique Problems

Set to power the world's biggest commercial jet, overcoming the engineering hurdles of this massive engine pushed its launch ...
Flightglobal

Airbus touts open-fan engines and folding wing designs for next narrowbody jet

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 ...

Is it true that the McDonnell Douglas MD-11’s tail engine has a fan?

Surprising facts about the MD-11's iconic rear engine and how it breaks from trijet tradition.

The modern engines rewriting the rules of what a narrowbody engine can do

From the GTF and LEAP to the latest narrowbody propulsion concepts, engine manufacturers continue to redefine what narrowbody ...
autoevolution

3-in-1 Airplane Engine Turns Into a Turbofan, Turbojet, and Ramjet Depending on Speed

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 ...

Rolls-Royce built an engine so powerful Airbus had to redesign the aircraft around it, and that is where engineering gets expensive

That said, the engine did not force Airbus to scrap a finished jet and start over. The more accurate story is more ...
American Machinist

GE Aero Maxes Supercomputing Work

GE Aerospace reported that it has conducted more than 3 million hours of supercomputing simulations during the past three years in its effort to define new commercial jet engine technology. It is ...