The Airbus A380 is no longer in production, but the debate surrounding its design choices remains active, especially regarding the four engines that power the world’s largest passenger aircraft. Not ...

How the world’s heaviest passenger jet reaches normal long-haul cruise altitudes despite its extraordinary weight.

Etihad has selected the Engine Alliance to supply the powerplant for the UAE airline's fleet of ten Airbus A380 aircraft on order. The Abu Dhabi airline said this afternoon that it had signed ...

SINGAPORE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines will replace engines on three of its Airbus A380 planes after finding oil stains on them, almost a week after Australian rival Qantas grounded its A380 ...

CTS Engines opened a facility in Coral Springs, Florida, in February to provide MRO services for the GP7200 powerplant. Credit: CTS Engines CHICAGO—Despite expectations that the Airbus A380 fleet ...

The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger airliner ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight up to about 575 metric tons, or roughly 1.27 million pounds, depending on the version. In a typical ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Planemaker Airbus is asking airlines that fly its A380 superjumbos to have any Rolls Royce engines inspected following the engine failure this week of an A380 operated by Qantas ...

Fatigue cracking caused by the axial misalignment of an area of counter‑boring within the inner diameter of a stub pipe appears to be the cause of an engine failure on a Qantas A380 jet flying from ...

When discussing Qantas flight 31, we need more science and less hyperbolic linkbait. Cooler heads should prevail. This week brought us the so-called “engine explosion” and “crash landing” of a ...

A Qantas Airbus A380 suffered damage after an aerobridge hit its engine before the aircraft was due to operate a flight. The incident took place on 12 July as the aircraft was due to operate flight ...

Airbus once convinced FedEx, UPS, and Emirates to bet on the biggest freighter ever imagined, but it quietly disappeared ...