Here’s What You Need to Remember: This first demonstrator was intended to not just offer an incredible amount of power, but a huge improvement in engine efficiency that can grant greater fuel range ...

GE Aviation has wrapped up testing on its first XA100 prototype, an adaptive cycle engine. An adaptive cycle engine is a novel turbine that can change air flow through three different air streams, ...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is one of the few fifth-generation military aircraft currently in operation. Compared with all the others still flying in the world, it’s a true junior, having ...

EVENDALE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GE has initiated testing on its second XA100 adaptive cycle engine as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP). Testing began on August ...

General Electric has announced the completion of a second XA100 adaptive cycle engine test phase in collaboration with the USAF. The manufacturer said on 12 September that the conclusion of the tests ...

GE Aerospace has wrapped a third phase of ground tests on its XA100 adaptive turbofan engine, as it continues to press for support to re-engine the F-35 with its proposal. David Tweedie, GE’s general ...

General Electric and Pratt & Whitney are fighting tooth-and-nail over jet engines—specifically, whose will power the hundreds of F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters operated by the U.S. military and ...

GE has been testing XA100s at ground facilities in Ohio and Tennessee since December 2020. Credit: GE Aerospace Beneath steel scaffolding and a thicket of instrumented cables and bolted-on accessories ...

GE Aviation said its XA100 adaptive engine, part of the Adaptive Engine Transition Program, has finished testing at Arnold Air Force Base and is ready to move to the engineering and manufacturing ...

GE Aerospace has finished a fourth round of testing on the XA100 adaptive cycle engine “to gather additional data and advance this next-generation technology for future combat aircraft.” the company ...

GE Aviation has completed the detailed design process of its XA100 engine under the U.S. Air Force’s Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP), the company announced Thursday. The latest development ...