US and European aviation regulators have certificated new high-pressure turbine blades that CFM International says will help address durability troubles with Leap-1A turbofans. CFM had said ...

GE says repairing a CFM56-7BE high-pressure turbine blade can save 80% of the cost of buying a new one. That’s a big figure—but when you couple it with the fact that parts account for up to 70 ...

GE Aerospace in Greenville, S.C., is manufacturing an updated high-pressure turbine blade that will extend the durability of CFM56-5B and CFM56-7B commercial aircraft engines, according to CFM ...

Turbine blades operate in an exceptionally hostile environment; they rotate at more than 3600 revolutions per minute, with a linear tip speed of 800 mph, under very high pressure (220 psi ...

ROLLS-ROYCE said development of a new Trent 1000 TEN high-pressure turbine blade is unlikely to be ready before the first half of 2021 as the company revises the design to provide sufficient ...

Such high-efficiency energy conversion dictates the use of lift-type turbine blades, similar to airplane wings, of twisted and tapered airfoil shapes. The blade design creates a pressure ...

The Pentagon suspended all flights of the F-35 after a borescope inspection last week revealed the crack in the third-stage low-pressure turbine blade deep ... were traced to high-cycle fatigue.

In aero-engines, the blade of the high pressure turbine was for a long time the highest of the high technology in the aero gas turbine, and despite the complexity of the modern fan blade, the ...

The row of last-stage blades (LSBs ... Historically, efforts to increase overall turbine efficiency focused on the high- and intermediate-pressure (HP and IP) sections. Over the past few years ...