Four-engine commercial jets like the legendary jumbo Boeing 747 and superjumbo Airbus A380 have largely been phased out in favor of more efficient twin-engine widebodies. Yet, there are some cases ...

Speculation abounds as to the cause of the Air India airplane crash on June 12. One explanation so far is that both engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner failed, a highly unlikely event. A list ...

Why Twins Are Trickier Than Singles Studying the image above should provide some insights into the fundamental physics and aerodynamics of conventional twin-engine airplanes. Obviously, when one ...

The global aviation industry relies heavily on the durability and efficiency of its engines, with recent reports on the commercial aircraft engines market estimating a market size valued at ...

Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...

Despite the original diesel fiasco in the 2010s — and the five automakers facing their own Dieselgate trial in the U.K. this year — diesel engines have definite benefits over their gasoline-powered ...