The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued the first airworthiness directive relating to the Airbus A380, mandating checks for cracking of vanes in Rolls-Royce Trent 900 high-pressure turbines.

Specialists from the General Electric and Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance working with Australian investigators are focusing on a failed nozzle guide vane as the suspected cause of an engine shutdown ...

MTU Maintenance is moving toward using its proprietary high-pressure turbine nozzle guide vane airfoil replacement repair for engines other than the CFM56-5B and CFM56-7, for which it was initially ...

Rolls-Royce's 90,0000-square-ft Advanced Airfoil Machining Facility (AAMF) will produce turbine blades and nozzle guide vanes. PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va.—Aerospace engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is ...

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has identified oxidation — and subsequent deterioration — of the protective coating around parts of a GE Aviation CF6 engine’s low‑pressure turbine as the ...

A gouge-and-braze technique has been investigated as an alternative to repair cracks sustained at the trailing edges of C1023 nozzle guide vanes. Slots of four different widths, namely, 0.3, 0.6, 0.9 ...