The 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) is transforming the way companies in many industries are manufacturing their products, and the aerospace industry is no exception. For example, aircraft ...

General Electric has redesigned the engines that will power the Boeing 777X to have thinner and stronger blades than any GE engine in service, and to power the aircraft more efficiently with fewer of ...

CFM International has sent an alert to Boeing 737 operators recommending ultrasonic inspections within the next 20 days to fan blades on CFM56-7B engines with more than 30,000 cycles since they were ...

DALLAS (AP) — An engine fan blade that showed signs of metal fatigue broke off, causing the emergency landing of a Southwest Airlines jet last month, investigators say. The plane landed safely in ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Airline regulators have ordered inspections on engine fan blades like the one that snapped off a Southwest Airlines plane and led to the death of a woman who was partially sucked ...

One of the many challenges facing the jet engine designer is to contain a failed fan blade within the engine, so that it threatens neither passengers nor airframe. Not only does the fan case structure ...