Sentences with phrase «in aircraft engines»

Initially, mechanical fuel injection was used exclusively in aircraft engines.

Because of this, turbos have long been recognized by auto manufacturers such as Saab for their value, and have been applied in aircraft engines and even 1000 - hp Formula One cars.

Gas turbines are used for the production of electricity and in aircraft engines.

Dr Curry and his colleagues have since tested the new layer thousands of times in what are known as «thermal shock tests» to simulate the temperature changes in an aircraft engine.

Not exact matches

The aircraft features a powerful Rotax engine with a twin exhaust system, designed for maximum efficiency in flight.

Southwest Airlines is racing to do an inspection of all of the engines in its aircraft similar to the one that exploded Tuesday, resulting in several injuries and the death of a New Mexico woman following an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

GE, a leader in 3D - printed aircraft engine parts, said it had produced 50 % of the parts needed for a helicopter engine, slashing the number of parts required from 900 to just 16, reducing the weight by around 60 % and cutting the related costs by 40 %.

On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration and European airline regulators ordered emergency inspections within 20 days of nearly 700 aircraft engines similar to the one involved in a fatal Southwest engine blowout earlier this week.

CFM says that more than 8,000 CFM56 - 7B engines are in use on Boeing 737s, «making it the most popular engine - aircraft combination in commercial aviation.»

The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

The CEO called his massive aircraft manufacturer a «big growth engine for the economy,» in which passenger traffic growth is currently outpacing the growth of the U.S. GDP.

A TMZ reporter inquired her about a recent scary airplane situation, in which the aircraft she was aboard had to make an emergency landing for double engine failure.

And the European Union, perhaps still smarting from the mothballing of the Anglo - French Concorde in 2003, spent $ 7 million ($ 9.8 million) on the 36 - month Long - Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies (LAPCAT) study, examining the possibilities of producing engines for aircraft that could far exceed the speed of sound.

The rise of a Chinese aircraft manufacturer is «a real plus» for Honeywell, which makes everything from jet engines to software systems used in planes, a company executive told CNBC Thursday.

Aircraft engines have gone from an unreliable Achilles heel on planes in the 1950s to devices that can operate for millions of hours without so much as a hiccup, said Steven Wallace, the former head of accident investigation at the Federal Aviation Administration.

Keeping planes in the air is the primary goal for AirStart, an aviation company that leases, rents and sells components such as engines and landing gear to Airbus, Boeing and Bombardier aircraft.

But as jet engines replaced turboprops, the island airport's runway was simply too short to handle the aircraft, leaving Pearson International Airport, located a 40 - minute drive from downtown, to capture the growth in air travel.

Virgin Atlantic recorded a time - lapse video which showed how a team of engineers replaced a five - tonne aircraft engine in the space of just 24 hours.

Slattery called Embraer's E-Jet E2 — its series of medium - range twin - engine jet airliners — a «profit hunter,» and wants to deliver that aircraft to more airlines in Asia.

The Asian country spent $ 16.48 billion on American - made civilian aircrafts, engines and aviation parts in 2015, up more than 180 percent from five years earlier.

The engine in question, the CFM56 - 7B turbofan, is the product of a 40 - year - old joint venture between GE Aviation and France's Safran Aircraft Engines called CFM International.

Both share a certain ease in handling, and it is no secret that the pilots of both aircraft would appreciate a bit more thrust from the engine.

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is reportedly nearing a deal to buy Precision Castparts, a maker of aircraft components, like blades in jet engines, and energy production equipment as well as other industrial components.

In December of 2014, her husband — an Air Force F - 16 aircraft engine mechanic — returned from a year - long tour of duty to discover he was being relocated from Arizona to Utah.

In addition, we have ordered aircraft and spare engines from Airbus and CFM for delivery over the next eight years.

Palmer is an accomplished but as yet unlicensed pilot.Taking a commercial pilot along in the twin - engine aircraft he likes to rent, he has in recent months logged 200 hours of flying time, some of it in weather that would have grounded a duck.

A woman aboard a Southwest flight was nearly sucked out of the plane after a piece of shrapnel from an exploded engine broke off and shattered her window before the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

By launching sixteen twin - engined Army bombers from the aircraft carrier Hornet, they managed to bomb targets in Tokyo and several other Japanese cities, something that the Japanese leadership assumed could not happen.

«Engine number one lost power 17 minutes into the flight, and thereafter on final approach, engine number two lost power and failed to respond to throttle movement on demand for increased power to sustain the aircraft in its flight configuration,» the report sEngine number one lost power 17 minutes into the flight, and thereafter on final approach, engine number two lost power and failed to respond to throttle movement on demand for increased power to sustain the aircraft in its flight configuration,» the report sengine number two lost power and failed to respond to throttle movement on demand for increased power to sustain the aircraft in its flight configuration,» the report stated.

Two of their labs gave me an offer: the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory [now Glenn Research Center] in Cleveland and Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California.

Boeing has tested two such «vegetable - based biofuels» with this antifreezing property in the General Electric jet engines used on many of its 747 aircraft, Daggett says.

Efficiency alone — even in the form of aircraft with improved engines and designs such as the Boeing 787, expected to deliver a 20 percent improvement in fuel efficiency over existing big airplanes — is not the answer.

Virgin Atlantic airline announced that early this year it will conduct the first flight test of a biodiesel — petroleum diesel blend in one of the four engines of a 747 aircraft; Air New Zealand is planning a similar test flight on a Rolls Royce engine in one of its 747s later in the year.

The engines in propeller powered aircraft achieve their maximum efficiency at much lower altitudes.

The process does generate heat, which the researchers say can be used for a number of tasks, including heating water and food in the galley, de-icing operations, or heating aircraft fuel prior to starting the engines.

«It's going to take a while to get there, if ever» Another more incremental option could be putting more high - powered batteries on aircraft in order to reduce the demands on carbon - spewing engines.

We need to know if it could cause an aircraft engine to explode in what is known as an «uncontained failure», with hot, fast - spinning engine parts being shed in all directions, potentially piercing wings, fuel tanks and even the cabin.

Several improvements in technology over the past decade — including solar cells and more efficient engines — make these aircraft more of a reality than they have been in the past.

Constructal law has also dictated the main design features needed for aircraft to succeed; the engine mass has remained proportional to the body size, the wing size has been tied to the fuselage length, and the fuel load has grown in step with the total weight.

The project is in close collaboration with world - leading aircraft engine provider GE, who are providing technical support and will play an integral part in the analysis of the data.

Even in an era of advanced computer modeling, the decade - old test is deemed essential for producing aircraft engines that can withstand the impact (pdf) of collisions with birds, which cause more than a billion dollars» worth of damage worldwide to civil aircraft every year, according to the Bird Strike Committee USA.

Airlines are prudently cautious, because volcanic ash is especially dangerous to airplanes, as ash can melt within an operating aircraft engine, resulting in possible engine failure.

Johnson describes the breakage of CVI ceramics as a «graceful» failure rather than a catastrophic one, which could be disastrous in an aircraft or motor engine.

The idea is that the new layer will be used in both aircraft engines and gas turbines within two years.

Researchers at University West in Sweden have started using nanoparticles in the heat - insulating surface layer that protects aircraft engines from heat.

Research at University West is conducted in close collaboration with aircraft engine manufacturer GKN Aerospace (formerly Volvo Aero) and Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery, which makes gas turbines.

Inc., which has a manufacturing facility in Livermore and has licensed an LLNL laser technology for peening jet engine fan blades and turbines, and other aircraft structures, in one of the Laboratory's most successful technology commercialization partnerships.

The validation flight was conducted using a 40:60 mix of Rentech's synthetic jet fuel with conventional Jet A fuel in one of two engines on an Airbus 319 aircraft.

It was 100 years ago at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, that man first flew in an engine - powered aircraft.

The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.