GE Aerospace in Cincinnati is using a 747 aircraft as a flying laboratory to test jet engines under extreme conditions, ...

The test offers fresh evidence that hydrogen can power aircraft in real conditions, putting China among the leaders exploring ...

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 ...

GE and Lockheed ground tested a new air-breathing hypersonic jet engine capable of powering missiles to speeds well in excess of Mach 5 in a smaller, cheaper, lighter, and more efficient package than ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astro Mechanica’s ground demonstrator, based on a GE CT7 turboshaft, drives a generator powering two propulsors. Credit: Astro Mechanica U.S. startup Astro Mechanica plans to take its hybrid-electric ...

1. LOCAL IMPACT: The rollout of the LEAP engine and another new engine program after that this decade, the GE9X, means GE Aviation and its joint venture CFM International are upping investments in ...

Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...

It is easy to admire an aircraft in flight, gliding across the sky, but far harder to imagine the furnace within—jet engines, ...