by EnviroTREC | Feb 7, 2017
Researchers Discover Way to Make Jet Engines Run Leaner and Cleaner Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered a way to improve the performance of turbine engines, including those used for transportation and in electricity generation. Originally...
by EnviroTREC | Jan 16, 2017
Originally published by Graham Warwick for Aviation Week & Space Technology on January 11th 2017 Airbus is installing a large additive-manufacturing machine at a production site in France to 3-D-print titanium aircraft structural parts for its aircraft. The EBAM...
by EnviroTREC | Aug 10, 2016
To win a competition, a Georgia Tech student devised a fuel-cell plane to rival today’s best-selling small aircraft Originally published by Tom Neuman for IEEE Spectrum on May 24h 2016 If you fly one of today’s small piston-powered planes, you will burn many gallons...
by EnviroTREC | Jun 13, 2016
Originally published by Lufthansa Group on February 12th 2016 Lufthansa, Airbus and Pratt & Whitney holding a delivery ceremony in Hamburg – First scheduled A320neo flights with better fuel efficiency and more passenger comfort achieved through quieter engines...
by EnviroTREC | Jun 3, 2016
Improved simulation and analysis tools are helping develop more and better once-exotic alloys, plus good old aluminum, for lighter aerospace designs with less waste. by Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly. Originally published in...
by EnviroTREC | May 30, 2016
Originally published by Guy Norris for Aviation Week on May 30th 2016. Less than two years after committing to developing the Trent 7000 for the reengined Airbus A330neo, Rolls-Royce has completed first ground tests on the initial powerplant and is preparing to...