Commercial planes are steadily coming equipped with more and more powerful turbofans. These engines produce enormous amounts of thrust, and when they’re cruising at high altitude, they sip fuel with ...

The 747’s hump became iconic because it solved old problems that modern jets no longer have.

While the World War II era was the first time we saw fighter jet engines take to the sky, there were some earlier operational prototypes. Anselm Franz, an Austrian engineer, designed and fitted one of ...

PARIS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - French-US jet engine maker CFM is studying a more conventional "advanced ducted" engine design alongside its preferred option for a radical open-fan concept for future jets, ...

The idea of a hybrid-electric engine for supersonic aircraft may elicit a similar initial response, but there is some very firm engineering logic behind it. Put simply, conventional supersonic engines ...

Aircraft engines offer some impressive capabilities.

Fighter jet engines are complex machines that enable aircraft to reach incredible speeds. The modern fighter jet is defined by its engine, which accelerates a tremendous volume of air rearward that it ...

The continent of Europe has created some of the most capable military aircraft in history, indeed the first combat action by an aeroplane was in Italian service. In the First World War, all of the ...