NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic jet returned to base just nine minutes into its second test flight on March 20, 2026, after a ...

NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) -- Rolls-Royce North America has broken ground on $50 million second jet engine test stand at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Miss. The ceremony was ...

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"This test confirmed that all components — software, mechanical linkages, and control laws — work together as intended." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

What happens, for example, when a twin-engine jet aborts a landing attempt and then loses power in one engine? The other engine has to quickly increase its thrust. Technicians demonstrated that for us ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago, GE Aerospace transformed commercial aviation with a material swap that most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...