Purdue University researchers have developed a monitoring system to detect one of the most common causes of premature blade failure in gas turbine engines – rotor forced response vibration. The roar ...

Photos show the damage to a Boeing 777 engine that failed soon after takeoff in Colorado. United Flight 328 landed safely after the failure of the Pratt & Whitney engine. US investigators released the ...

Here’s a crystal-clear video showing what happens when an airplane engine fan blade gets loose when you fire a chicken at 250 knots into a turbojet using a chicken gun. Result: (Contained) Boom.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive Tuesday night, ordering U.S. airlines to inspect any aircraft with certain Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines. United ...

While US investigators disagree with the immediate impression that the recent United Airlines Boeing 777-200 engine incident was one of uncontained failure, the extent of the damage to the powerplant ...

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 ...

A few flawed engine blades have been found on planes from several airlines, with inspections underway in hopes of preventing another disaster like the one that occurred on a Southwest Airlines flight ...

DALLAS (AP) — A small number of fan blades with cracks like those blamed for a fatal accident on Southwest Airlines have been found at other airlines, and the engine maker is considering recommending ...