China's Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) has announced that it has test-fired its new 1,322-pound (600-kilogram) thrust turbofan engine for the first time. The announcement was made on WeChat ...

We saw the first production turbofan engine by Rolls-Royce, called the Conway, in 1954. Turbofans divert some airflow around the core of a turbojet engine, speeding it up with a large fan, and then ...

A turbofan engine, on the other hand, is designed to move huge amounts of air to propel an aircraft forward. At lower subsonic speeds, it does this quite well. Faster than that, aerodynamic drag ...

Enormous engines like the GE90 had to be developed to power the 777, primarily because it has two turbofans rather than four.

Pratt & Whitney reported the F135 Engine Core Upgrade is on schedule and “exceeding expectations,” having completed its preliminary design review. That review teamed the engine developer and ...

BERLIN, April 30 (Reuters) - German engine manufacturer MTU Aero Engines (MTXGn.DE), opens new tab reported higher first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, boosted by orders from the joint European ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...