Airbus is actively encouraging propulsion manufacturers to explore open-rotor engine concepts to offer competition to CFM International’s RISE programme. Although still a demonstrator, the RISE engine ...

Pratt & Whitney continues to insist its engine offering for the next generation of single-aisle aircraft will be a traditional ducted fan engine, eschewing the open-fan design of its rival CFM ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of European planemaker Airbus said novel open-rotor technology being tested by engine maker CFM International offers promising efficiencies and reductions in emissions ...

Wind-tunnel testing of multiple configurations of sub-scale blades for GE's Open Rotor engine is being conducted to identify the optimum blade design for the engine's two counterrotating stages of ...

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