The new bearing falls in line with the push for greater aircraft-engine efficiency over the next two decades, as environmental and climate-protection legislation imposes stricter engine requirements.

CFM International is redesigning the bearing in the radial drive shaft of the LEAP-1B that powers the Boeing 737 MAX after five incidents in which an engine was shut down in-flight because an oil ...

Strong demand for these aircraft was in part fulled by the meteoric rise of oil prices after 9/11 in 2001. But as oil prices have now plunged more than 70 per cent from their mid-2014 highs of ...