Modern jet engines operate in gas temperatures exceeding the melting point of their own components, surviving only through extreme materials science, hollow single-crystal blades, internal air cooling ...

A lot goes on behind the scenes to keep aircraft safe and airworthy, something that many of us take for granted. One of the ...

While the World War II era was the first time we saw fighter jet engines take to the sky, there were some earlier operational prototypes. Anselm Franz, an Austrian engineer, designed and fitted one of ...

The West Jefferson, N.C., plant produces commercial and military aircraft engine components, including rotating parts, blisks, high-pressure turbines, and spools for the CFM LEAP-1B engines that power ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

In the late 1940s, GE introduced the J-47 gas turbine engine, which became the most-produced jet engine of the early jet age, ...