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

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

The Open Fan demonstrator will also be a puller, or tractor, configuration with a single stage of rotating blades and a second nonrotating stage of active, variable-pitch stators. Credit: CFM CFM ...

General Electric designed this proof-of-concept turboprop “unducted fan” engine as part of NASA’s Advanced Turboprop Project, which was aimed at overcoming the three-fold increase in fuel prices ...

WHEN A MODIFIED MD-80 airliner flew at the 1988 Farnborough air show in Britain, it was supposed to represent the future of air travel. One of its rear-mounted jet engines had been replaced with an ...

California-based vintner Paul Masson was perhaps best known for a slogan made famous on TV commercials for the winery in the 1970s by the late Orson Welles: "We will sell no wine before its time." ...

Boeing Co.'s commercial aircraft chief, Jim Albaugh, said today he's not certain that so-called unducted-engine technology will ever be viable. “I have a hard time believing that's ever going to be ...

DALLAS — The Federal Aviation Administration is calling for more frequent, ongoing inspections of tens of thousands of engine fan blades in airline fleets across the U.S. to check for “unsafe ...