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 ...

GE says it is looking seriously at unducted fan technology as demand for new products like the next-generation narrowbody are better understood. The engine maker notes the reasons now are the same as ...

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 ...

Safran Aircraft Engines has detailed the key technologies it will mature as part of an EU-funded project that will support work on the RISE open-rotor demonstrator being conducted by the CFM ...