Widebody commercial engines like the GE9X come with a high price tag, around $42 million, due to their size and power. As jet engines are the cutting edge of engineering, they are expensive. This ...

The thrust output for a given fuel burn largely determines aircraft engine efficiency. Soon after the inception of jet engines, manufacturers (the largest being General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, and ...

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, then, that you can also still buy and build the Visible V8 model engine kit, first sold by Renwal in 1958 and one of the longest-selling plastic model kits of ...

Science presenter Rani Price meets two scientists involved in developing a new type of jet engine that could power commercial space flights. The engine is being developed by British scientists and ...

The Boeing 707, with its four jet engines, first took flight in 1958 and ... decibels), forcing Boeing to build them with anti-noise kits. Ironically, Boeing only intended to make 250 of the ...

The Cabinet Committee on Security on Monday (September 2, 2024) approved the proposal for the procurement of 240 aero-engines for Su-30MKI aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) under the ‘Buy ...

The long-haul aircraft that propel our intercontinental journeys are enormous, but delicate, machines—airborne dust can abrade the interiors of jet engines, for example, reducing their ...