If you ask anyone working in the aviation industry what they think the most important component of modern-day planes is, chances are the vast majority may tell you that it is the jet engine. Also ...

If you've ever had a chance to look closely at a commercial jetliner, you might've noticed a spiral painted on the center of its engine fan. It might seem like a decorative choice, but the little ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...