Preliminary investigation into the AirACT Boeing 747-400 freighter excursion at Hong Kong have found that, after touchdown, forward thrust increased on the outboard right-hand engine - the ...

Question: Do they really reverse the engines after landing to slow the aircraft? If so, doesn't this put a huge strain on the engines? — Submitted by reader Andy, Granada Hills, Calif. Answer: Reverse ...

As they circled over Geneva, Switzerland, passengers in the French-built Caravelle jetliner had considerable cause for alarm. The plane’s landing gear was crippled, and the pilot was cautiously ...

A Jetstar Airbus A320 was unable to deploy its thrust reversers during a landing at Sydney on 20 September 2018, after engineers forgot to remove a maintenance pin during an earlier maintenance task.

Eight spoilers on each wing add aerodynamic brakes to the A380’s mechanical ones. The nacelle sleeve on this Rolls- Royce turbofan is beginning to slide aft for thrust reversal. Phil ...

Jet engines are relatively simple in their basic design, but advancements in gas turbine engine technology have mostly done away with the cool-looking bucket-type reverse thrust systems. These thrust ...

United Aircraft Corporation, via its official VKontakte account, announced (29-Oct-2025) the PD-8 thrust reversal was tested on Sukhoi SJ100 (MSN 97003) for the first time. The test confirms the ...

Steadily climbing profits at the Kuwaiti carrier, Jazeera Airways, have gone into reverse recently, with two consecutive quarters of losses. New CEO Rohit Ramachandran tells Alan Dron he focusing on ...

About 10 years ago, a little-known aerospace engineer called Roger Shawyer made an extraordinary claim. Take a truncated cone, he said, bounce microwaves back and forth inside it and the result will ...

Question: Do they really reverse the engines after landing to slow the aircraft? If so, doesn't this put a huge strain on the engines? — Submitted by reader Andy, Granada Hills, Calif. Answer: Reverse ...