When a winter storm sweeps across the US Midwest, or a heavy Siberian front dumps feet of powder onto Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport, the primary concern for most travelers is the de-icing of wings ...

Jet engines are built to endure enormous stress, but sand is one of the few things that can quietly destroy them from the inside. When sand enters the intake, it melts into a glass-like layer that ...

An Airbus A321neo operated by Frontier Airlines suffered a left-engine failure last month caused by ingesting fragments of its nose wheel following an attempted landing in San Juan. The US National ...

Every few thousand miles, we pull into a shop, wait our turn, and let a technician drain and replace the golden liquid that keeps our cars running. Jet engines, however, operate on a completely ...