Back in April, we first heard about a 3D-printed UAV airframe that could be fabricated within 24 hours. Created by a Boeing-assisted team at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing ...

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Pratt & Whitney continues to insist its engine offering for the next generation of single-aisle aircraft will be a traditional ducted fan engine, eschewing the open-fan design of its rival CFM ...

Developed in the 1970s by German company RFB, the Fantrainer was designed as a cost-effective advanced pilot trainer to address the high fuel costs of jet training and the dissimilar handling of ...

A Denver-based start-up has raised $10 million in equity “crowdfunding” to help develop a ducted-fan powered, fixed-wing business aircraft called the TriFan 600. XTI began a crowdfunding campaign on ...

Getting stuck on a flat portion of a trail while snowboarding is a major buzz kill. You can either hop yourself to the nearest slight downhill or unstrap your board and take a walk. Neither option is ...

Any student new to the principles of fluid dynamics will be familiar with Bernoulli’s principle and the Venturi effect, where the speed of a liquid or gas increases when the size of the conduit it ...

The mystery of how futuristic aircraft embedded engines, featuring an energy-conserving arrangement, make noise has been solved by researchers at the University of Bristol. The study, published today ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Airbus is to test a radical engine with visible fan blades as the world’s largest plane maker gears up to ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the mid-1950s, Hiller constructed a series of innovative Flying Platforms for an Army-Navy program as a one-man ...

The computer servers that fill huge data centers are producing more heat with every new generation of processors. It’s a problem that’s sending engineers on a search for cooling fans that are both ...