The Open Fan demonstrator will also be a puller, or tractor, configuration with a single stage of rotating blades and a second nonrotating stage of active, variable-pitch stators. Credit: CFM CFM ...
Safran has played down the significance of reports that its CFM International narrowbody joint venture with GE Aerospace is developing a ducted-fan alternative to the open-rotor architecture being ...
Absent for 20 years, open-rotor engines are back on the power agenda for next-generation single-aisle aircraft. What does that mean for the future of conventional turbofans, geared or otherwise, and ...