GE Aerospace completes NASA-supported ground tests of a hybrid electric turbofan engine, advancing electric propulsion for future narrowbody aircraft.

General Electric has started a second series of preliminary tests on a critical component of the 100,000lb-thrust GE9X turbofan engine selected to power the Boeing 777X aircraft family. Testing began ...

Airbus is to perform test flights of the Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engine later this year with the powerplant fitted to an A340 aircraft. The airframer will fit a demonstrator version of the ...

Rolls-Royce is developing a low-emissions combustion system for its turbofan aircraft engines, the ALECSys (Advanced Low Emissions Combustion System) demonstrator engine, that has entered its final ...

A Sukhoi Su-57 fighter completed a first flight powered by a 35,000-lb.-thrust Izdeliye 177 engine this month, beginning the flight test phase of a turbofan designed for powering export models and ...

In a rare development, Airbus and Pratt & Whitney yesterday announced an agreement to flight test Pratt's Geared Turbofan engine on Airbus's A340 testbed, although the engine does not have an ...