A hybrid-electric jet engine may seem as absurd as a horse-drawn Zeppelin, but GE Aerospace is ground testing a new megawatt-class hybrid turbofan engine and its full powertrain that is powerful ...

Rolls-Royce and the U.S. Air Force validated the F130's ability to meet performance requirements for the B-52 missions, getting closer to flight testing. Engine maker Rolls-Royce announced on Feb. 24, ...

A GE Aerospace flight test aircraft is shown in flight. The company announced a 1 billion dollar investment across its U.S. facilities for 2026, including upgrades to test cells and equipment at the ...

GE Aerospace and Kratos have concluded high-altitude testing of a small jet engine intended to power uncrewed fighter aircraft. The pair, which announced their intent to jointly develop the GEK800 ...

With their capability to fly higher, farther, and more efficiently, jet engines have transformed air travel since their introduction. From its origins in the 1930s, the jet engine was a substantial ...

Five years ago, in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on yet another project that doesn’t involve, well, space: the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC). Since then, NASA’s ...

Innovations in jet technology are happening all the time. This is due to modern advancements, which are leading engineers in new directions previously only theorized. The latest example is the plasma ...

In addition, replacing all those mechanical parts makes the engine cheaper – an important point with what is essentially a disposable power plant. For testing, the engine installed in the ATLAS Flight ...

It sounds like something out of science fiction, but the idea of a turbine jet engine in a mainstream production car is not new. In fact, the Wikipedia page for cars powered by aircraft engines has ...

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