Whisper Aero doesn't plan to actually make the Whisper Jet, but this vision shows how 11 small ducted fans could be mounted on each wing. The jet engines on commercial airplanes can be absolutely huge ...

A Denver-based start-up has raised $10 million in equity “crowdfunding” to help develop a ducted-fan powered, fixed-wing business aircraft called the TriFan 600. XTI began a crowdfunding campaign on ...

A new study reveals how noise is generated and propagated from these engines, technically known as boundary layer ingesting (BLI) ducted fans. The mystery of how futuristic aircraft embedded engines, ...

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On CFMI’s ducted fan studies, Snecma civil engines director general Jean-Pierre Cojan told Aviation International News the contrarotating ducted fan is being revisited because today’s ...

Picture a jet engine stripped of its outer casing, with massive fan blades spinning freely in the open air like an oversized propeller mounted ahead of the wings. The exposed blades, sweeping through ...