Boeing ultimately settled on three engines for the 727 as a compromise between its three launch customers: United Airlines ...

The Boeing 747 Jumbo stands out for being the most popular quad-engined commercial passenger jet to exist. It also boasted the longest production run of any commercial jet in its class. But why was it ...

One way to tell Boeing 737 family aircraft from their Airbus A320 family counterparts is that 737s have a distinctive flat-bottomed engine. But why? The Boeing 737 was designed at a time when engines ...

You may have noticed them on certain planes when looking out the terminal windows — a kind of shark-toothed look on the back of some planes' engines. Commercial airplanes, outside of their livery, are ...

American aerospace giant Boeing has taken a bit of tarnish of late. A pair of deadly crashes and other lesser malfunctions have sullied the reputations of the latest iterations of the brand's 737 Max ...

Pratt & Whitney (P&W) and Boeing are asking the Federal Aviation Administration for more time and for regulatory exemptions as part of design changes they are making to PW4000-112 turbofans and the ...