The Federal Aviation Administration wants East Hartford jet-engine maker Pratt & Whitney to replace potentially unsafe cracked air seals in its turbofan engines installed in nearly 1,000 airplanes at ...

Pratt & Whitney's new PurePower geared turbofan engines are designed to be cleaner, quieter, more powerful, and more fuel-efficient than existing jet engines. The engines will power the next ...

A lack of suitable European-built small turbofan engines for 'loyal wingman' applications that are also free of export restrictions has pushed the EU to consider funding the development of a new ...

One of the rarest, most perilous mechanical failures in commercial aviation is an engine loss on takeoff, yet that’s exactly what investigators say happened to UPS Flight 2976 in Louisville. The ...

Nobody at Pratt & Whitney is going to remember 2020 as a good year for the company. The engine business of aerospace behemoth Raytheon Technologies RTX has seen sales of commercial aircraft products ...

Enormous engines like the GE90 had to be developed to power the 777, primarily because it has two turbofans rather than four.

Rolls-Royce is developing a low-emissions combustion system for its turbofan aircraft engines, the ALECSys (Advanced Low Emissions Combustion System) demonstrator engine, that has entered its final ...

China's Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) has announced that it has test-fired its new 1,322-pound (600-kilogram) thrust turbofan engine for the first time. The announcement was made on WeChat ...

Turbofan engines represent a pinnacle of modern aero‐propulsion technology, with aerodynamic performance playing a crucial role in achieving improved fuel efficiency, reduced emissions and enhanced ...

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