Diesel aircraft engines promise lower fuel burn and cheaper operating costs at a time when every gallon and every kilogram ...

While the World War II era was the first time we saw fighter jet engines take to the sky, there were some earlier operational prototypes. Anselm Franz, an Austrian engineer, designed and fitted one of ...

The development of a new turboelectric jet engine is set to transform air travel by enabling affordable supersonic flights, potentially cutting travel time from San Francisco to Tokyo to just three ...

The world’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, especially for transportation, has left a deep mark on both the planet and public health. Burning these fuels releases a flood of greenhouse gases, which ...

GE ramps up factories, MRO sites, and next-gen engine tech to meet soaring global jet-engine demand and support the booming ...

Airbus is teasing technologies that could enable its next-generation single-aisle jet, including innovative engine and wing designs aimed at boosting efficiency. The Toulouse-based airframer provided ...

A woman wearing a lab coat and dark goggles stands with her hands on the handles of a large piece of metal lab equipment with various tubes and flanges, and a man wearing a lab coat works at a glove ...

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 ...

Four-engine airplanes like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 were once essential for long-haul travel. At the time, engines weren't powerful or reliable enough to handle long-haul flights, which made ...