Even as the powerful Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II becomes a staple on the flightline of air forces around the world, and the sixth-generation Boeing fighter begins development, three of the ...

Credit: GE Aerospace GE Aerospace on May 19 revealed a new small turbofan design optimized for the cost profile of the emerging collaborative combat aircraft market and sized for a range of variants ...

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 ...

Both Honeywell Aerospace and the team of GE Aerospace and Kratos have been awarded contracts to complete development of new designs for small turbofan engines meant to offer low-cost propulsion for ...

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 ...

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 ...

GE Aerospace tested a high-bypass turbofan engine fitted with electric motor/generators to supplement power during different phases of operation. The design optimizes engine performance, so the ...

Isothermal forging is a closed-die process in which the dies and the workpieces are heated to the same temperature, so that forming can take place without loss of temperature in the workpiece. It’s a ...