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 ...

With it being hard to see the fan blades spinning and difficult to hear the engine starting, jet engine spirals are a lifesaver. When the jet engine is running, these static swirls turn into a ...

A jet engine is a highly complex ... Take a look at an engine from the outside—you can see this from an airport gate—and you’ll notice the fan blades at the front, housed within the engine ...

The design of the fan blades, which play a crucial role in the ... Those worrying an open fan jet engine may be a lot noisier than the existing ones are reassured the engine's noise signature ...

For starters, a turbofan has a fan attached ... compressor blades, increasing thrust and performance. However, in a side-by-side comparison against turbofans, the turbojet engine isn't nearly ...

The turboelectric adaptive engine is designed to ... use the exhaust gas to spin the compressor fan to draw in air. More exhaust equals more speed. And a turbojet is efficient at supersonic ...

Inadequate inspections by Pratt & Whitney were partly responsible for a midflight breakdown of a jet engine that showered ... was caused by a fan blade that broke about five minutes after the ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. airline regulators have ordered inspections on engine fan blades like the one that snapped off a Southwest Airlines plane, leading to the death of a woman who was ...