When you're flying on a commercial jet, you naturally become very familiar with the sound and feeling of the powerful turbine engines. As you take off, you can feel their rumbling muscle rocketing the ...

Jet engines are relatively simple in their basic design, but advancements in gas turbine engine technology have mostly done away with the cool-looking bucket-type reverse thrust systems. These thrust ...

Like most modern commercial jets, the Boeing 787 uses a cascade-type thrust reverser. Credit: Collins Aerospace As sustainability goals push more systems toward electromechanical actuation solutions, ...

Landing a massive passenger aircraft requires a host of different systems and procedures to work correctly, and there are many redundancies in place when conditions are less than ideal or the ...

The A320 commissioned by the China Eastern airline, delivered on May, 2012, is equipped with the 6000th thrust reverser produced by Aircelle. Interview of Vincent Mascré, Chairman and CEO of Aircelle.

QTA has developed corrosion-resistant thrust-reverser doors for the HTF7000 QTA’s titanium-based thrust-reverser doors are a precise-fit replacement for the aluminum originals, but have a lifetime ...

Collins is turning its sights to electric thrust reverser actuation systems as it prepares to divest its traditional hydraulic actuator business to rival Safran. The RTX subsidiary already supplies ...

Damaged left thrust reverser of the accident jet. Credit: NTSB Two weeks after the March 2019 crash involving an IAI Westwind in Yukon, Oklahoma, two people who were familiar with jet told the NTSB ...

The C-17 Globemaster III is one of several aircraft the United States has that can deploy all four of its thrust reversers in flight. It's a tactic called a reverse-idle descent, and it's something no ...

QTA has engineered a cure to corrosion problems with HTF7000 thrust-reverser doors at considerably reduced cost compared with replacing entire units. The Quiet Technology Aerospace thrust reverser ...