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 ...

An Aer Lingus Airbus A330 makes an unusual-looking final approach at Manchester Airport, raising the question of whether reverse thrust appeared before touchdown. From this angle, the aircraft’s ...

Boeing’s 777X can stop without reverse thrust, but proving it is brutally complex.

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 ...

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 ...