When you're flying on a commercial jet, you naturally become very familiar with the sound and feeling of the powerful turbine engines. As you take off, you can feel their rumbling muscle rocketing the ...

Airbus is aiming to introduce an engine control unit software modification for CFM International CFM56 powerplants, to reduce the safety risk if A320 pilots attempt a go-around after activating ...

Landing a massive passenger aircraft requires a host of different systems and procedures to work correctly, and there are many redundancies in place when conditions are less than ideal or the ...

FAR Part 25 governs the certification of transport category aircraft. Within this regulation is specific guidance as to the design of thrust reverser systems. Part 25.933 imposes several important ...

Damaged left thrust reverser of the accident jet. Credit: NTSB Two weeks after the March 2019 crash involving an IAI Westwind in Yukon, Oklahoma, two people who were familiar with jet told the NTSB ...

Danish investigators have determined that an Airbus A320 crew’s aborting a landing, despite activating reverse-thrust, resulted in control difficulties as the aircraft climbed away with one engine’s ...

A feature that helps aircraft slow down on landing was broken on a Boeing 737 that skidded into a river in Florida, a top transportation safety official said Sunday. The plane skidded off the runway ...

QTA has developed corrosion-resistant thrust-reverser doors for the HTF7000 QTA’s titanium-based thrust-reverser doors are a precise-fit replacement for the aluminum originals, but have a lifetime ...

The C-17 Globemaster III is one of several aircraft the United States has that can deploy all four of its thrust reversers in flight. It's a tactic called a reverse-idle descent, and it's something no ...

QTA has engineered a cure to corrosion problems with HTF7000 thrust-reverser doors at considerably reduced cost compared with replacing entire units. The Quiet Technology Aerospace thrust reverser ...

(Reuters) - A component meant to slow an aircraft on landing was inoperative on the Boeing jetliner that slid off a runway into a river at a Florida military base, injuring 22 people, investigators ...