For starters, a turbofan has a fan attached at the front of it, used to send some air to the core of the engine and some around the core. They're also more fuel-efficient than their turbojet ...

Part of NASA's Advanced Air Vehicles program, HyTEC was established to accelerate the development of turbofan engine small core technologies. The first phase of the project focused on developing ...

As Simple Flying previously analyzed, today's turbofan engines operate using ... Much of that air bypasses the central engine ...

Central to their performance ... pursuit of next‐generation turbofan engine performance. Bypass Ratio: The ratio of the mass of air that bypasses the engine core to that which passes through ...

It is expected to help with the development of more efficient engine core technologies, and could also be used ... in the air passing over a laser-illuminated area. “Applied to a turbofan engine, the ...

Recent discussions surrounding the armed force's latest and most tech-laden fighter jet ever, the F-35 Lightning II, had manufacturer Lockheed Martin suggesting replacing the aircraft's current ...

That's one of the reasons why the upcoming UltraFan unit is such an important piece of tech for the engine maker. Dubbed "the ultimate turbofan ... called the Advance3 core architecture and ...

It hasn’t succeeded, mainly because the Pratt & Whitney turbofan picked for the job ... By modifying the engine core, as Pratt & Whitney proposes, the engine can generate more than sufficient ...