Air safety officials are focusing on engine fan blades in their investigation of what caused a massive engine failure aboard a Boeing 777-222 commercial airliner Saturday, strewing huge aircraft ...

These included the captain's "side stick" used to fly the aircraft, a tiller that helps steer it while on the ground, engine fan blades that were "completely missing", a partly missing toilet seat ...

LONDON—GKN Aerospace is working to validate a new engine fan blade coating that will help make repaired blades “better than the original,” which should reduce aircraft fuel burn. In daily ...

In their quest to make engines more efficient, aircraft engine makers have gradually ... The design of the fan blades, which play a crucial role in the efficiency levels of this kind of engine ...

Debris that gets sucked into today’s high performance military and civilian aircraft engines during take-off and other routine operations often causes small, even microscopic, damage to the leading ...

A breakthrough study has revealed why emerging electric aircraft engine technology sounds so annoying -- and how to fix it.

GE had already worked closely with Boeing on several commercial aircraft, supplying engines for the 787 ... despite having fewer fan blades (six fewer blades than the GE90) and using lighter ...

Rolls-Royce says it's finished building the first demonstrator for its massive UltraFan engine ... aircraft, ranging from 25,000 lbf to around 110,000 lbf of thrust. Its 140-inch-diameter (3.56 m ...

These included the captain's "side stick" used to fly the aircraft, a tiller that helps steer it while on the ground, engine fan blades that were "completely missing", a partly missing toilet seat and ...