Aerial firefighting helicopters ingest significant volumes of airborne particles, and operators are advised to conduct periodic “compressor washes” to remove the contaminants from the compressor.

SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (Reuters) - GE Aerospace technician Suresh Sinnaiyan has spent more than a decade repairing jet‑engine compressor blades by guiding them across a sanding belt with practised ...

Turbojet engines are an incredible piece of 20th century engineering that except for some edge cases, have mostly been replaced by Turbofans. Still, even the most basic early designs were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have used one of the world's most powerful supercomputers to find out how microscopic damage to turbine blades ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has taken action in response to several instances of International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500 turbofans suffering high-pressure compressor blade failures. The agency ...

Rexford Industrial built a pair of mid-sized facilities on 4-acre Orange site that it bought in 2021 Pacific Aerodynamic Inc., which specializes in the repair of compressor blades for airplane jet ...

The flight crew of a Boeing 747-400 noticed a pronounced EGT exceedance after leveling off at FL380 followed by vibrations that were outside of specified limits. Post-incident investigation revealed ...