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 ...

Two years ago, in 2023, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the birth of the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program. The goal of the effort was to ...

Printing a model jet engine is quite an accomplishment. But it wasn’t enough for [linus3d]. He wanted to redesign it to have a turbojet, an afterburner, and a variable exhaust nozzle. You can see how ...

As part of its goal to have zero-emission aircraft enter service by 2035, Airbus has announced the development of a hydrogen fuel-cell engine designed for airplanes. Unlike Rolls-Royce's recently ...

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 ...

Why it matters: A Y Combinator-backed startup has developed a groundbreaking jet engine that could make supersonic flight as affordable as current commercial aviation. As Freethink reports, this isn’t ...

It's been a long time coming, but finally actual build work has begun on a new kind of airplane engine, one that might revolutionize the industry. NASA calls it the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core ...

East Hartford-based jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney has been awarded an $11 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to build F100 engines for military aircraft, a member of Connecticut’s ...