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 ...
The 747-500 was Boeing’s plan to give the jumbo jet a huge range boost by using advanced propfan engines and updated wings.
WHEN A MODIFIED MD-80 airliner flew at the 1988 Farnborough air show in Britain, it was supposed to represent the future of air travel. One of its rear-mounted jet engines had been replaced with an ...
The double-decker that could have been.
Ukraine and Russia started conducting tests of their new-generation two-shaft propfan engine developed to power the An-70 military transport aircraft and small passenger planes, local media reported ...
DARK HORSE: The mysterious Antonov An-112KC offered by U.S. Aerospace in its rejected bid for the U.S. Air Force KC-X tanker contest (Aerospace DAILY, Aug. 5) has been revealed as an An-70 airlifter ...