Franco-American aerospace company CFM—a joint venture between Safran Aircraft Engines and GE Aerospace—has moved ...

The open-fan engine has become aviation’s favorite near-future miracle: a sleek, exposed set of blades that promises a step-change in fuel burn, just in time for the mid-2030s clean-sheet airliner ...

Pratt & Whitney continues to insist its engine offering for the next generation of single-aisle aircraft will be a traditional ducted fan engine, eschewing the open-fan design of its rival CFM ...

In February, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), CFM International and Airbus signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish Singapore as the world’s first airport testing ground for ...

Safran Aircraft Engines is ramping up system-level testing for a future open-fan engine as it builds towards full-scale ground tests next year of the front module – including the 4m (13ft)-diameter ...

Plans to flight test CFM International’s Open Fan engine on an Airbus A380 are accelerating following the initial meeting of the Safran-led Technology and Knowledge for European Open Fan flight (Take ...

BRUSSELS—Testing is underway at increasingly larger scales for the integration of an open-fan engine on Airbus’ next-generation single-aisle aircraft (NGSA), Airbus and Safran executives said March 18 ...