Built in Middletown, Connecticut, Pratt & Whitney’s F135 engine produces over 40,000 pounds of thrust - enough to power the F-35 Lightning II through stealth missions, vertical takeoffs, and ...

One detailed technical profile of a proposed hydrogen powered hypersonic jet explains that the design team expects the fuel to cool both the engine and the skin, enabling repeated flights without ...

Just a couple of decades ago, aviation had some rules. If you wanted to fly fast within the atmosphere, you used a jet engine. The champion here was the SR-71 Blackbird, designed by Lockheed Martin, ...

In comparing the GE9X and Trent XWB, it becomes clear that while both engines share common goals of efficiency, reliability, and sustainability, the paths they take to achieve them couldn’t be more ...

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 ...

The first of the two patents, both of which were first brought to wider attention by CarBuzz, indicated that using a turbine as a steady-state generator could be considerably more efficient than what ...