Adaptive cycle engines are specially designed to alternate between efficiency and raw power—extending an aircraft’s range ...

The F-47’s adaptive cycle engine is built to switch modes in flight, delivering long-range efficiency and Mach 2+ power without the usual tradeoffs. This video breaks down how the three-stream design, ...

The F-47 is not just a new fighter, it is powered by an adaptive cycle engine that rewrites the rules of jet propulsion. This breakdown explains how a shape-shifting engine delivers Mach 2 speed, ...

Ever since 2016, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has been looking for a new engine to slap into its fifth-generation F-35 fighter plane. The engine didn’t get to be detailed until 2019, and testing didn’t ...

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 ...

Sep. 15—The U.S. Air Force and GE have completed testing on GE's second XA100 adaptive cycle engine at the Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee. GE called it "the final ...

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 ...

TULLAHOMA, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Air Force and GE on March 25 th initiated Phase 2 testing of GE’s second XA100 adaptive cycle engine at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development ...

GE and Pratt & Whitney are fighting for a place on the USAF Next Generation Air Dominance fighter. GE built the XA100 engine under the Adaptive Engine Transition Program. This engine would form the ...

GE Aerospace reported it completed a fourth round of tests for the adaptive cycle engine technology it is researching for the U.S. Air Force as part of the Next Generational Adaptive Propulsion ...

FARNBOROUGH—With ongoing ground tests of the General Electric XA100 adaptive cycle combat engine set to end soon, the engine-maker is studying how the advanced propulsion system—proposed for the ...