Safran held an opening ceremony for the new facility in Guiyang. Credit: Safran SINGAPORE—Safran Aircraft Engines says it will double Leap engine blade production in China as it officially opens a new ...

The integration of adaptive machining and reverse engineering has emerged as a pivotal approach in the maintenance and regeneration of aero‐engine blades, components that are critical to both ...

“When we started 30 years ago, laser technology was not ready for high-speed processing of thermoplastic composites,” says Janssen. “You can imagine that, especially on the control side, you only had ...

AMES, Iowa – Engineers know that gas turbine engines for aircraft and power plants are more efficient and burn less fuel when they run at temperatures high enough to melt metal. But how to raise ...

Hill Helicopters engineered composite main rotor blades using a novel single-cure manufacturing process for stiffness and ...

High-pressure turbine blades undergo about 200 steps as part of their manufacturing at Chromalloy. Credit: Lee Ann Shay/Aviation Week Network High-pressure turbine blades in aviation engines have a ...

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 ...

A team of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers are furthering their revolutionary combination of recyclable thermoplastics and additive manufacturing (better known as ...

This shows that Shangfa Composites has achieved progressive results in innovation-driven and collaborative research and made a big step forward in the field of aero engine manufacturing. Looking into ...

Pratt & Whitney (P&W) and Boeing are asking the Federal Aviation Administration for more time and for regulatory exemptions as part of design changes they are making to PW4000-112 turbofans and the ...