It's been more than a decade now since American aviation behemoth Boeing started working on the 777x, and the pieces are finally starting to fall into place. After a number of delays and missed ...

Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...

The General Electric CF6 family of high-bypass turbofan engines stands out as one of the most successful widebody engines ever developed. Even though it was first developed in the late 1960s and early ...

American aerospace giant Boeing has taken a bit of tarnish of late. A pair of deadly crashes and other lesser malfunctions have sullied the reputations of the latest iterations of the brand's 737 Max ...

DOE supercomputers will simulate the in-flight performance of a GE Aerospace open-fan concept engine, to evaluate its energy-efficiency and noise levels. The CFM International Open Fan concept jet ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

Southern California start-up Natilus has emerged with a blended wing-body (BWB) aircraft design it believes will upend decades of tube-and-wing dominance in the commercial jet market. “When we started ...

With its “Flightpath 2050” strategy, the European Commission has outlined a framework for the aviation industry that aims to reduce emissions as well as fuel and energy consumption. Among other things ...