The company announced it has begun the first wind tunnel tests for something called ... Those worrying an open fan jet engine may be a lot noisier than the existing ones are reassured the ...

AVRIEUX, France (Reuters) - French engine maker Safran said on Friday it had begun wind-tunnel tests for its "RISE" technology project, a radical jet engine ... visible fan blades and would ...

However, a feature common to all these engines is the single, massive fan that covers almost the entire circumference of the engine. As the only visible component of modern-day jet engines and ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has finished windtunnel testing an experimental fan-in-wing design for a Pentagon ... cruising at speeds typical of fixed-wing jet-powered aircraft. Aurora says its recent ...