The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued the first airworthiness directive relating to the Airbus A380, mandating checks for cracking of vanes in Rolls-Royce Trent 900 high-pressure turbines.
Specialists from the General Electric and Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance working with Australian investigators are focusing on a failed nozzle guide vane as the suspected cause of an engine shutdown ...
MTU Maintenance is moving toward using its proprietary high-pressure turbine nozzle guide vane airfoil replacement repair for engines other than the CFM56-5B and CFM56-7, for which it was initially ...
Rolls-Royce's 90,0000-square-ft Advanced Airfoil Machining Facility (AAMF) will produce turbine blades and nozzle guide vanes. PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va.—Aerospace engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is ...
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global commercial aircraft turbine blades and vanes market report. This research report also lists five ...
Engine guide vanes (white structures behind front fan blades) made from DLR have previously required metallic coatings to pass impact tests. After exploring hybrids with continuous fiber materials, ...