Anyone who has lived near an airport can attest that airplane engines are loud. If you've ever lived near a military air base, you know that fighter jets can have some of the loudest. The turbulence ...
The biggest concern for Boeing was that, while chevrons were certainly effective at lowering engine noise, they also had the ...
This video shows a passenger jet undergoing a high power engine test while stationary on the runway. The engines are run at ...
You may have noticed them on certain planes when looking out the terminal windows — a kind of shark-toothed look on the back of some planes' engines. Commercial airplanes, outside of their livery, are ...
DOE supercomputers will simulate the in-flight performance of a GE Aerospace open-fan concept engine, to evaluate its energy-efficiency and noise levels. The CFM International Open Fan concept jet ...