The GE9X is a smaller variant of the General Electric GE90 high-bypass turbofan engines, developed for the new Boeing 777-8x/9x aircraft and introduced in 2013. GE Aviation is designing a new, thinner ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has blamed the 2021 uncontained failure of Pratt & Whitey PW4077 turbofan partly on engine design and testing failures and on inadequate fan blade ...

For many years, fan blades for high bypass aero-engines were manufactured from solid titanium alloy forgings and were designed with mid-pan snubbers to control vibration. However, snubbers impeded ...

Smartphones today are always fighting two big battles: keeping a strong signal and staying cool when things get tough. Most ...

Few inventions have lent themselves to as little improvement over the years as the simple fan, with its whirring blades that blow air across a desk or through a room. But now even the conventional fan ...

An engine on a United Airlines jet broke up over the Denver metro area in 2021 because of wear and tear on a fan blade that was not adequately inspected for signs of cracking, federal investigators ...

German automotive supplier Mahle has been hard at work on next-gen electric drive systems, and it's also been exploring other critical components to help make vehicular electrification a more viable ...