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 ...

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 ...

RTX in recent years filed patent applications for technologies related to open-rotor engines, though the company insists it remains committed to developing an updated geared turbofan (GTF) for ...

Pratt & Whitney reports promising results from a round of critical tests on its small turbofan engines that evaluated how they can be integrated on Collaborative Combat Aircraft. The tests have shown ...

Propulsion technology has steadily evolved over the past century, starting from piston engines all the way to the present era of turbofan jet engines. But innovation is always taking place behind the ...

GE Aerospace is set to supply SkyWest Inc. with at least 120 CF34 engines to power the 60 new Embraer 175 regional aircraft that the carrier booked recently. GE Aerospace did not indicate the value of ...

The European Union (EU) is to support research and technology efforts on the development of small turbofan engines for collaborative combat aircraft (CCAs), autonomous aerial refueling and a multirole ...

An artistic image of notional Collaborative Combat Aircraft. Pratt & Whitney is modifying its PW500 turbofan engines to meet CCA propulsion requirements. (Pratt & Whitney) Pratt & Whitney, an RTX ...

The aviation marketplace is a weird place sometimes. Take the current shortage of jet engines, for example. A whole confluence of issues has caused a global engine crisis, resulting in Pratt & Whitney ...