Pratt & Whitney and Alcoa announced Monday at the Farnborough Airshow that Alcoa will forge the first-ever aluminum alloy fan blade in a jet engine. Typically, fan blades have been made from titanium.

Unveils World’s First Advanced Aluminum Alloy Fan Blade Forging for Pratt & Whitney’s Hybrid-Metallic Fan Blade for the PurePower ® Engines NEW YORK & FARNBOROUGH, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading ...

Heavier titanium and pricier carbon fiber once presented the only options. The PW1500G became the first engine certified with aluminum fan blades. (Photo: Pratt & Whitney) ...

MIT researchers have designed a printable aluminum alloy that’s five times stronger than cast aluminum and holds up at ...

Direct drive wall fans are designed for compact and cost-effective through-the-wall general ventilation applications. These multispeed axial fans feature aluminum fan blades and a plated steel wire ...

For many years, fan blades for high bypass aero-engines were manufactured from solid titanium alloy forgings and were designed with mid-pan snubbers to control vibration. However, snubbers impeded ...

One of the many challenges facing the jet engine designer is to contain a failed fan blade within the engine, so that it threatens neither passengers nor airframe. Not only does the fan case structure ...