Ah nostalgia: hoop skirts, bobby-soxers, big-band swing and airliners with propellers pulling them through the skies. Remember? Get set for a dose of deja vu. NASA and a bevy of big-time aeronautical ...

Boeing Co. said it selected General Electric Co.`s new unducted fan engine as the base power source for its new 7J7 airliner. Boeing selected GE after rejecting a competing engine from International ...

General Electric designed this proof-of-concept turboprop “unducted fan” engine as part of NASA’s Advanced Turboprop Project, which was aimed at overcoming the three-fold increase in fuel prices ...

If the latest plans of U.S. civil-aircraft manufacturers pay off, travelers will have to prepare for a radically different sight in the early 1990s: airliners with double rows of huge propellers ...

Will spiralling fuel costs and the prospect of carbon credits signal the return of the propfan? Engine makers are dusting off some old concepts On display in Boeing's Future of Flight centre in ...

Boeing Co.'s commercial aircraft chief, Jim Albaugh, said today he's not certain that so-called unducted-engine technology will ever be viable. “I have a hard time believing that's ever going to be ...

Boeing Co.’s commercial aircraft chief, Jim Albaugh, said today he’s not certain that so-called unducted-engine technology will ever be viable. “I have a hard time believing that’s ever going to be ...