When you're flying on a commercial jet, you naturally become very familiar with the sound and feeling of the powerful turbine engines. As you take off, you can feel their rumbling muscle rocketing the ...

Landing a massive passenger aircraft requires a host of different systems and procedures to work correctly, and there are many redundancies in place when conditions are less than ideal or the ...

Like most modern commercial jets, the Boeing 787 uses a cascade-type thrust reverser. Credit: Collins Aerospace As sustainability goals push more systems toward electromechanical actuation solutions, ...

Damaged left thrust reverser of the accident jet. Credit: NTSB Two weeks after the March 2019 crash involving an IAI Westwind in Yukon, Oklahoma, two people who were familiar with jet told the NTSB ...

Thrust reversers on the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that overshot a runway at Midway International Airport and killed a child on the ground last week were deployed significantly later than they ...

UK investigators have found that an Airbus A320 captain, having initiated a go-around on touchdown at Corfu, cycled the thrust levers forward and back after realising reverse-thrust had already been ...