Boeing is set to debut its biggest plane ever next month, and the 777X has finally been paired with the gargantuan GE-9X engine that will propel its flight. The plane is currently housed in Boeing's ...

I've been asked to tell you the story of jet propulsion, from the time 20 years ago when it was just an idea for making aeroplanes fly higher and faster, right up to the present. It's a long story, ...

Jet travel allowed a greater scope for world travel for everybodyOn display at the Midland Air Museum is one of the early engines produced by Coventry born Sir Frank Whittles Power Jets factory at ...

Boom Supersonic is putting its engine technology to work on the ground to power the AI boom, and help fund development of its ...

Commercial planes are steadily coming equipped with more and more powerful turbofans. These engines produce enormous amounts of thrust, and when they’re cruising at high altitude, they sip fuel with ...

All jet engines work on the same principle. The engine sucks air in at the front via a fan. A compressor, made of spinning blades inside the main shaft of the engine, then raises the pressure of this ...

The Ultrafan engine has giant carbon composite blades tipped with titanium "It's on another scale from anything I've seen before," says Lorna Carter who recently started working at a new Rolls-Royce ...

Eighty years ago, a piece of world-changing technology emerged from a semi-derelict garage in Leicestershire - the world's first viable jet engine. But as Frank Whittle's invention took to the skies ...

Simply sign up to the Aerospace & Defence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the 1990s, when India was pursuing economic reforms, testing nuclear weapons and raising its profile ...