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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The race to bring hypersonic flight into the real world just took a leap forward with Venus Aerospace's successful test of a revolutionary engine. The Houston-based startup has developed a compact ...

A few days ago, California-based defense tech firm Anduril concluded the first test flights of its semi-autonomous Fury fighter jet without a pilot in the cockpit. Oh wait, there's actually no cockpit ...