GE Aerospace technician Suresh Sinnaiyan has spent more than a decade repairing jet‑engine compressor blades by guiding them across a sanding belt with practised precision.
Aside from enabling cutting-edge hypersonic research, the vehicle could serve as a spaceplane for research and reconnaissance ...
GE Aerospace announced on January 26 that it reached a key milestone in hybrid-electric aviation, confirming a successful ground test of a commercial turbofan engine that can extract, transfer, and ...
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 ...
To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December might have looked like standard hardware. But NASA and GE Aerospace researchers watching the unit fire up ...
This video shows a passenger jet undergoing a high power engine test while stationary on the runway. The engines are run at near maximum thrust, producing intense noise and visible airflow effects.
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 ...
Ramjets are jet engines that effectively have no moving parts. Instead of using turbines to compress incoming air as it flows into the combustion chamber, it uses the forward motion of the engine to ...
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 ...
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- "I never understood why jet engines are left wide open to bird strikes and debris. I thought there should be a way to guard against such items entering and ...
SINGAPORE – The year 2025 was supposed to be a big one for Chinese aircraft manufacturer Comac. With more than 1,000 of its C919 passenger planes on order, the state-backed jet maker had pledged to ...