Plasma jet engines promise a future of fuel-free, electrically driven flight, but the technology faces a stubborn obstacle ...

Engineers in the aeronautical industry are always cooking up fresh ideas for aircraft, especially when it comes to making jet ...

With their capability to fly higher, farther, and more efficiently, jet engines have transformed air travel since their introduction. From its origins in the 1930s, the jet engine was a substantial ...

The aircraft flying today are dominated by the Boeing 777 family of giant twin-jets, with Airbus' rival A350 coming in behind ...

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 ...

Aerial firefighting helicopters ingest significant volumes of airborne particles, and operators are advised to conduct periodic “compressor washes” to remove the contaminants from the compressor.

For more than 70 years, scientists and engineers have been baffled by the thunderous roar of jet engines — a problem that has ...