Rolls-Royce conducted successful tests of CTi fan blades in a Trent 1000 engine last December, on a Rolls-Royce 747 flying test bed at Tucson, Arizona. Rigorous testing of the complete fan set will ...

Making fan blades for airplanes used to be pretty straightforward, but now it’s a whole different ballgame. We’re talking ...

Carbon fiber composites aren't a new thing in jet engine fan blades, including GE Aviation's. But every so often GE engineers have to redesign them to take advantage of advances in carbon composite ...

Since 1980, average fuel usage in commercial aircraft has plummeted by 27% for widebody aircraft and 35% in narrowbody models. Composites have played an indispensable role in that transformation. But ...

The first round of fan blade tests occurred in June at the ITP Engine testing facility in the United Kingdom and focused on validating the new composite material for the fan blades. GE plans a second ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER — Innovation and job growth were celebrated Monday during the grand opening of the joint manufacturing plant of Albany International and Safran. Jean-Paul Herteman, chairman and CEO of ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a low-cost carbon fiber that could lower the cost of blades for wind turbines. The fiber begins as widely available raw material used in the ...

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 ...