A fan blade on a jet engine snapped off a Southwest Airlines Co. plane last month in a violent failure that sent debris slamming into the plane, according to a preliminary investigative report ...

Jet engines are at the heart of modern air travel, powering the majority of commercial aircraft. These advanced propulsion ...

Turbofan engines are the beating heart of modern aviation, powering everything from passenger airliners to advanced military ...

Major players in the aircraft engine blade market are CFM International, GE Aviation, Rolls-Royce Holdings plc., MTU Aero Engines AG, Albany International Corporation, Doncasters Group Limited ...

Flaws in jet engine fan blades like one that cracked and broke loose in April, killing a Southwest Airlines Co. passenger, have been discovered on... Skip to Main Content Skip to footer.

Indian carrier SpiceJet has received its first batch of overhauled engines from StandardAero, marking a pivotal moment in its ...

Engines are meant to contain incidents such as a fan blade breaking, but the fan cowl failed, investigators said. Advertisement The fan casing was a new design on the Boeing 737 NG.

The NTSB’s investigation into the April 17 inflight engine failure on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 has raised the question of whether turbine engine fan blades should be life-limited.

And in a more notable incident, a United McDonnell Douglas DC-10 was flying from Denver to Chicago on July 19, 1989, when the fan on its tail-mounted engine explosively disintegrated.Parts from ...

GE has designed advanced carbon-fibre composite fan blades for its GE9x engine. The 777X, scheduled to begin production in 2017, will sport two of them. The type as of July had secured 300 orders ...

DUBLIN, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The 'Aircraft Engine Blades Market - Growth, Trends, and Forecast (2020 - 2025)' report has been added to Re... Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly ...