Boeing just shattered every rule of jet engine design with a self-morphing powerplant that leaves China and Russia completely ...

Astro Mechanica – founded in 2021 by Ian Brooke and with a tight ship of only eight employees – is an aerospace startup developing what it calls a turboelectric adaptive engine for both subsonic and ...

As the Air Force rushes to produce the F-47, it is also upgrading the Raptor to keep it cutting-edge into the 2040s.

The US Air Force has completed a detailed design review of two adaptive-cycle engine designs under the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion effort, which aims to develop a turbofan for potential ...

Pratt & Whitney and General Electric completed the Assembly Readiness Reviews of XA103 and XA102 engines, activating their supply chains to prepare for the assembly of the physical NGAP engines. The ...

Adaptive cycle engines combine the high-bypass efficiency of subsonic turbofans with the high-thrust capability of low-bypass systems by varying their internal airflow paths and pressure ratios in ...

The US Air Force is funding development of adaptive-cycle turbofans under the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion programme. GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney (P&W) have advanced their designs for ...

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