TransDigm Group agreed to acquire Jet Parts Engineering and Victor Sierra Aviation Holdings from private-equity firm Vance ...

Aircraft components maker TransDigm Group said on Friday it would buy Jet Parts Engineering and Victor Sierra Aviation from ...

Based in Seattle, Jet Parts Engineering is a maker of aerospace aftermarket and VSA is a US-based manufacturer of aftermarket parts serving the commercial aerospace market.

But flight engineers were crucial in those early decades of jet travel, responsible for monitoring the aircraft systems throughout the flight. Then, in the late 1980s, the landscape started to shift.

Princeton Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Fred Dryer has a lofty goal: end the nation's reliance on oil for jet travel. With potentially major benefits for energy security and the ...

The last US-built commercial airplane with a flight engineer was a 747-200, although a unique aircraft with a flight engineer ...