The power of modern aircraft is staggering, and these incredible machines grow ever more powerful. When the Heinkel He 178, the first pure turbojet aircraft, first flew in 1939, it did so with 4.41 ...

Enormous engines like the GE90 had to be developed to power the 777, primarily because it has two turbofans rather than four.

Rolls-Royce is one of the world's leading commercial aircraft engine manufacturers, with over 13,000 engines currently in service worldwide. The British manufacturer has produced some of the most ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

In the late 1940s, GE introduced the J-47 gas turbine engine, which became the most-produced jet engine of the early jet age, powering aircraft such as the F-86 Sabre and several other new fighters.