Diesel aircraft engines promise lower fuel burn and cheaper operating costs at a time when every gallon and every kilogram matter in the air. Yet as manufacturers push these powerplants into more ...
As Aviation Week’s AeroEngines Asia-Pacific event kicks off in Hong Kong, and now that Asia-Pacific operators have finally returned to pre-COVID levels, this week’s Flight Friday highlights the ...
Fifteen years since the first mockup appeared in public, Leonardo Helicopters is confident it can finally bring its AW09 single-engine light helicopter to the market by year-end. Following a lengthy ...
Top 10: The aircraft made great by a new engine ...
Airbus, like its competitor Boeing, is responsible for producing thousands of aircraft for hundreds of different companies and countries around the world. It's a huge company with a wide repertoire of ...
The aviation industry is looking to take a cue from the recent success of ...
American aerospace giant Boeing has taken a bit of tarnish of late. A pair of deadly crashes and other lesser malfunctions have sullied the reputations of the latest iterations of the brand's 737 Max ...
In the future, regional flights such as Trondheim-Oslo could become much more environmentally friendly with the help of a hybrid aircraft engine. This type of engine combines an electric motor and a ...
Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) ...
At first glance, a twin-engine aircraft looks a whole lot safer than a single-engine one. After all, if you lose an engine, you still have another to keep you flying in the air, right? This isn't ...