Rim-driven thrusters turn the normal propeller-motor arrangement inside out; rather than mounting the motor at the center of the propeller, they use a large hollow motor, with the blades attached to ...

The A-10 Thunderbolt II has been terrorizing ground targets since the 1970s and surviving retirement proposals for almost as long. Known officially as the ...

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 ...

While it's fairly common knowledge to enthusiasts that the first jet fighter was the speedy Messerschmitt Me 262, introduced in 1944, the invention of the turbine jet itself may not be as widely known ...

A modern jet engine is a complex mechanical wonder. However, these aren't engines that will just roar into action with the turn of a key or the press of a button. Often, turbine engines will need ...

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 ...

This was not a one-off experiment built for a headline. The hydrogen work followed a staged path, beginning in 2022 when easyJet and Rolls-Royce ran a modern AE2100 aircraft engine on 100% green ...

The idea of a hybrid-electric engine for supersonic aircraft may elicit a similar initial response, but there is some very firm engineering logic behind it. Put simply, conventional supersonic engines ...

There are many components that go into a jet engine, from combustors to compressors to those gigantic fans that are a staple of engine design. Many of these things are also found in the engines of ...

A white wide-body jet in the air, with one jet engine appearing on the right-hand wing - Dushlik/Getty Images The dawn of the jet age changed the landscape of commercial flight forever, giving rise to ...