France developed the Nord 500—a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft powered by twin ducted fans that promised speed, ...

Helix, a UK-based electric motor specialist, has released a new blueprint to slash fuel consumption in very short-haul ...

PARIS— Boeing has issued a request for information (RFI) to engine makers for advanced ducted propulsion systems in the ...

With its rows of small, ducted fans, the Lilium eVTOL aircraft may be at a disadvantage in a hover, but the company says the design offers some serious advantages over the open-rotor competition ...

An open-fan engine features a larger-diameter fan for better efficiency. As the accompanying nacelle would make the engine ...

[FanJet Aviation] The company was Rhein Flugzeugbau (RFB), and by starting with a clean-slate design, it proposed an entirely new aircraft called the Fantrainer. It would utilize a ducted fan ...

Developing new aircraft powered by novel technologies such as un-ducted fans and hydrogen-burning engines remains essentially infeasible without billions and billions of dollars in direct ...

that would have 11 of their ducted fans on each wing, for a total of 22. That nine-passenger aircraft would be designed to take off in a conventional way, by speeding down a runway, as opposed to ...

Lilium made the announcement Monday in an Instagram post, showing video of its electric powered ducted fan aircraft Phoenix 2 taking flight. “We’ve begun the next phase of our flight testing ...

VTOL: Vertical Take-Off and Landing, referring to aircraft capable of lifting off and landing vertically. Ducted Fan: A propulsion system where a fan or rotor is enclosed within a duct ...

The relevance of a quiet aircraft to the DOD is likely obvious. Whisper has validated that it can fly a 55-pound drone with its electric ducted fan at an altitude of 200 feet that is completely ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Airbus is to test a radical engine with visible fan blades as the world’s largest plane maker gears up to ...