GE Aviation has begun assembling the high pressure compressor (HPC) rig that will be tested this summer as part of the GE9X engine study for Boeing’s 777X aircraft. Boeing has selected GE as its ...

Aviation is a major contributor to global climate change, with some estimating the commercial aviation industry producing anywhere between 1.9% to 3.5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions.

Purdue University will operate a new federally funded facility to test aircraft engines and develop ... Work will focus on jet engines but will include some testing related to piston engines. "The ...

Textron Aviation has named one of its test pilots to lead its Beechcraft and Cessna piston-engine aircraft business. Doug May has been appointed vice president of piston aircraft, and will report ...

As Rolls-Royce prepares to begin initial ground runs of the UltraFan engine demonstrator ... s gearbox using a specialized rig developed by Denmark-based R&D Test Systems. The high-performance ...

The market for aircraft engine test cell solutions has been divided into four segments based on engine tests: piston engine, APU, turbofan, turbojet, and turboshaft (Auxiliary Power Unit).

Shell is one of the two companies selected by the FAA to further test its unleaded aviation ... as a drop-in replacement for most any piston aircraft engine running 100LL today.

This is the second award DARPA has made to LiquidPiston in the past 18 months, following an earlier test program for a different LiquidPiston rotary engine prototype, which achieved promising results.

when its first airplane engine was placed in a Beech-designed biplane. Since then, the company has built more than 325,000 piston aircraft engines while doing business as Avco, Textron and then ...

Commercial aircraft use jet fuel, which does not contain lead. Aircraft that do use leaded fuel are typically small piston-engine planes that carry two-10 passengers and are around 45 to 47 years old.