The Rolls-Royce UltraFan could be the powerplant of choice for next-generation aircraft.

Is it real? Well, yes and no. “While it’s not to scale, this 1.5 inch long model was made entirely from direct metal laser melting and required no assembly,” explains GE in another tweet. Does it work ...

As the most popular and fastest-selling jet engine in history, GE Aerospace has reaped the rewards of theGEnx engine, with more than 3,000 in service. These engines have proven to be a game-changer ...

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel "precessing magnetic jet engine" model to explain the peculiar gamma-ray burst ...

A jet engine with no moving parts. Sounds like something out of Dune. But a Baltimore start-up successfully flight-tested a scaled version to prove that the concept worked. Wave Engine Corp. released ...

The design of present-day aircraft and everything related to them has largely remained the same for decades. A central metal cylinder with wings to either side, on which the aircraft's engines are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. P 51 USAF A great aircraft is the civil (or military) partnership of a good engine and good airframe. And sometimes a separation ...

Printing a model jet engine is quite an accomplishment. But it wasn’t enough for [linus3d]. He wanted to redesign it to have a turbojet, an afterburner, and a variable exhaust nozzle. You can see how ...