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F-35 fighter jet engine to test first full-scale 3D-printed metal case by 2028

RTX’s Pratt & Whitney has joined forces with GKN Aerospace to develop a large ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

US: Open-fan GE engine targets 20% jet fuel cut as full-scale testing begins

CFM International (a joint GE Aerospace and Safran Aircraft Engines company) has announced that ...
New Atlas

Hybrid jet engines work to excel where pure-electric jets fail

A hybrid-electric jet engine may seem as absurd as a horse-drawn Zeppelin, but GE Aerospace is ground testing a new megawatt-class hybrid turbofan engine and its full powertrain that is powerful ...
autoevolution

NASA’s New Hybrid-Electric Jet Engine Just Proved It Can Power an Airliner

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 ...
MotorBiscuit

DIY Jet Engine Erupts in Flames Before Melting Its Own Internals

The ambition was admirable: a small-scale jet engine designed from the ground up so that ordinary makers, with no specialist ...
Hackaday

Building A Rim-Driven Jet Engine

Rim-driven thrusters turn the normal propeller-motor arrangement inside out; rather than mounting the motor at the center of the propeller, they use a large hollow motor, with the blades attached to ...
NextBigFuture

Lockheed and GE Test Hypersonic Engine

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 ...