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 ...

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 ...

You could call it a temple of thrust -- a building designed to handle the massive thrust these engines can kick up. Walls 3 feet thick and giant doors weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds enclose ...

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 ...

British engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is currently in the process of testing new technology at its Derby site in order to protect jet engines from the damaging effects of desert dust and sand. Fine ...

For the tests, the ramjet wasn't lit, since the goal was to study aerodynamics. Besides, setting it off while bolted to a fighter jet would have been messy, to say the least. Actual ignition will have ...

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 ...

Producers of military jet engines are rolling out new lines of small turbofans, eyeing an expected boom in demand for uncrewed fighter aircraft. US propulsion suppliers Pratt & Whitney (P&W), GE ...