Yak-36 was the Soviet Union's first VTOL jet, proving vertical flight concepts but cancelled due to limited payload and ...

How engine design has evolved to boost fuel efficiency, and where it's going from here.

Reducing aircraft soot emissions may not reduce contrail clouds, according to in-flight observations of emissions from a ...

Engine chevrons have become a defining feature of modern aircraft, but do they really pose a problem for performance?

Contrails are an effect that results from specific atmospheric conditions combined with elements from an aircraft's engine ...

I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years.” The remark by Wilbur Wright now ...

For more than 70 years, scientists and engineers have been baffled by the thunderous roar of jet engines — a problem that has ...

The 1,170-degree exhaust from a Air National Guard KC-46 tanker’s engines blew a 25-foot wide crater in an Alaska airport’s ...

Researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion, or FCAAP, are ...

How real a threat to potential climate change are contrails—the trail of ice crystals formed by jet engine exhaust at high altitudes? Only hard data will help answer the question, yet contrails and ...

The Q-code big-block was the unpopular Cobra Jet motor in 1969 – most people opted the Ram Air variant of the 428-cube V8 ...

The wild idea may only be a patent for now, but the Japanese automaker has been refining the idea for some time. Subaru filed two patents for electric turbine engine systems for potential use in ...