In recent years, fuel efficiency and sustainability have been important metrics for modern commercial aviation aircraft. For airlines, fuel efficiency allows them to save money on the bottom line by ...

Airliners are growing ever bigger to haul more people per flight, which means they need appropriately massive engines — and GE Aviation is happy to oblige. It recently conducted the first test flight ...

You could call it a temple of thrust -- a building designed to handle the massive thrust these engines can kick up. Walls 3 feet thick and giant doors weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds enclose ...

A modern jet engine is a complex mechanical wonder. However, these aren't engines that will just roar into action with the turn of a key or the press of a button. Often, turbine engines will need ...

American aerospace giant Boeing has taken a bit of tarnish of late. A pair of deadly crashes and other lesser malfunctions have sullied the reputations of the latest iterations of the brand's 737 Max ...

In the late 1940s, GE introduced the J-47 gas turbine engine, which became the most-produced jet engine of the early jet age, ...

Both the Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing 777X are set to revolutionize the long-haul carrier market. While the 777X is larger with a higher capacity and wider cabin, the A350 still appears to be the ...