Virgin Blue and its Pacific Blue and Polynesian Blue affiliates will use a quick-turnaround approach developed by Lufthansa Technik to avoid inflight service issues with variable stator vanes (VSV) on ...

Turbochargers are wonderful things, taking waste energy and using it to help an engine to produce more power. The variable-geometry turbocharger is an advanced version of this technology, which brings ...

The 3DCeraTurb project focuses on the design and manufacture of a turbine vane using two of the most important new classes of manufacturing technologies and materials: Additively manufactured metals ...

Challenging the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engine in the light turboprop market is a tall order, and GE Aviation knows it. "The PT6 has been a legendary achievement for Pratt. That engine was first ...

Turbochargers are one of the best methods for extracting more power out of an engine with less total displacement. Unlike a supercharger, which compresses air at the intake stage and runs off a belt ...