The company, part of the French state-owned SNECMA group, manufactures thrust reversers which form part of aircraft braking systems. The Brazilian manufacturers of the Embraer 145 jet are ...

I recently flew on a Brazilian-made Embraer 145, a small regional jet. The 145 is a nifty plane that genuinely impressed me.

Smiths Aerospace Actuation Systems' business in Los Angeles has been selected to design and make the thrust reverser actuation system (TRAS) for CFM's CF34-10 engine. On current aircraft sales ...

But Gastão says the threat of debris ingestion by the thrust reverser is largely a myth. Ingestion occurs only at speeds below 40-50kt, a range at which using the thrust reverser is unnecessary.

/PRNewswire/ -- The 2,000 thrust reversers have been designed and manufactured by Safran Nacelles for nearly 20 years at its United Kingdom site in Burnley, ...