WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Gas turbine engines often are considered the “heart” of airplanes and ships. Now, Purdue University innovators looking for new solutions to reduce emissions and enhance ...
An engine compressor stall during a routine touch-and-go flight certification led to a fatal T-38 Talon trainer crash at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, in November, according to a recent Accident ...
Shortly after takeoff from LAX at 11:32 AM on Tuesday, Delta Flight 89, a Boeing 777-200 bound for Shanghai experienced an engine abnormality called a compressor stall. According to recorded ...
When, last year, I visited the USS Nimitz and had the opportunity to take the following picture (Part 1 and Part 2) I didn’t think that compressor stalls during “cat shots” (catapult lauches) were ...
Carriers using Airbus A220s are being advised to monitor the operating performance of low-pressure compressors, to warn of stalls, following measures to address engine failures on the type. A220s are ...
Dutch investigators have concluded that a Boeing 747-400ERF crew was startled by an engine compressor stall during the take-off roll, and consequently failed to reduce thrust in time to prevent a ...
A general emergency was declared on Air France 852 currently flying from Paris to Cayenne in French Guiana in South America. A general emergency was declared on Air France 852 currently flying from ...
Caught on video: an RNoAF F-16 ingests a bird during take off. Birds ingested in aircraft engines can have devastating effects. The video below, shared on Twitter by Stephen Trimble, Aviation reporter ...
Saab 340B Compressor Stalls Lead To Emergency AD Emergency AD 2003-08-52 was issued last month for the GE CT7-9B turboprop in response to 12 compressor-stall events in Saab 340Bs over a six-month ...
Authorities using sonar in the search for the missing engine from US Airways Flight 1549 detected something about the size of the massive aircraft part deep in the frigid, murky Hudson River on ...