Reverse thrust works by redirecting the thrust generated by an aircraft’s engines forward instead of backward, counteracting ...

No, that feeling is the result of a special component of the jet engines aptly named the thrust reversers. It's thanks to the thrust reversers that commercial jets can slow to a safe stop on the ...

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.

UK investigators have found that an Airbus A320 captain, having initiated a go-around on touchdown at Corfu, cycled the ...

Some aircraft engines have thrust reversers designed to help speed a descent: The U.S. Air Force C-17, for example, uses reverse thrust to get on the ground faster in combat zones. NASA’s ...

The Safran Nacelles Services Americas MRO station will provide maintenance and repair services to Republic Airways for the ...

The C-20G (Gulfstream III) is an all-weather, long-range, high speed aircraft powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey MK511-8 turbofan engines with thrust reversers. The aircraft has an executive ...

The relationship has been further strained over the year’s by China’s efforts to reverse engineer ... takes longer to produce thrust. The troubled Liming WS-10 jet engine.