The jet engine on the new Boeing 777x has run into myriad technical problems over the course of its development. Yet another has further delayed its rollout.

Researchers using the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have identified aerothermal flaws in jet engine turbine blades that conventional simulation methods could not detect. The discovery centers on how microscopic surface roughness ...

CASTELLON DE LA PLANA, Spain (Reuters) -At Castellon airport in eastern Spain, workers in hazmat suits wriggle through hatches of a nearly new Airbus jet, stripping out parts as if gutting a mechanical whale. Once a semi-deserted airport, Castellon has ...

Jet engine technology is among some of the most advanced means of propulsion in the skies today. From commercial airlines to military fighter planes, these massive engines can be heard roaring overhead in countries around the world. But while jet engines ...

In the endless pursuit of faster, more efficient travel, engineers have been cooking up all kinds of new forms of propulsion. One of the most interesting to emerge in the last decade is the electric plasma jet engine, a battery-powered thruster that uses ...