Aircraft piston engines primarily use either carburetors or fuel injection systems to meter and deliver fuel to the cylinders, with both systems reliably mixing fuel with separately supplied air.
For the vast majority of passengers, an aircraft engine just looks like a beautifully streamlined tube with the exclusive job of producing thrust. In reality, it is one of the most densely engineered ...
The aviation industry has long relied on breakthrough engine architectures to deliver major leaps in performance. From the introduction of the high-bypass turbofan in the 1960s to geared turbofan ...
To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December might have looked like standard hardware. But NASA and GE Aerospace researchers watching the unit fire up ...
FARNBOROUGH, England – July 20, 2026 – GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) announced today at the Farnborough International Airshow an industry first to advance the future of flight, demonstrating the viability ...
More-electric aircraft (MEA) systems are transforming aerospace design by replacing complex hydraulics with advanced electric ...
Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...
The committee has looked at a number of potential engine modifications as well as concepts for re-engining of current aircraft. In general, at 2006 fuel prices, it was difficult to recommend any ...
The new contract covers the Post-Critical Design Review phase of the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program, which will replace the TF33 engines with the new F130s. The U.S. Department of War ...
There is this estimate in the aviation industry that the world would need around 40,000 new commercial aircraft over the next two decades, the vast majority of them playing in the single-aisle segment ...