Printing a model jet engine is quite an accomplishment. But it wasn’t enough for [linus3d]. He wanted to redesign it to have a turbojet, an afterburner, and a variable exhaust nozzle. You can see how ...

Top 10: The aircraft made great by a new engine ...

Pratt & Whitney Canada is supplying a new engine to Textron Aviation for its new business jet, the Cessna Citation Ascend. The turbofan engine design was developed to improve specific fuel consumption ...

As the most popular and fastest-selling jet engine in history, GE Aerospace has reaped the rewards of theGEnx engine, with more than 3,000 in service. These engines have proven to be a game-changer ...

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 ...

A turbofan engine, on the other hand, is designed to move huge amounts of air to propel an aircraft forward. At lower subsonic speeds, it does this quite well. Faster than that, aerodynamic drag ...

A jet engine with no moving parts. Sounds like something out of Dune. But a Baltimore start-up successfully flight-tested a scaled version to prove that the concept worked. Wave Engine Corp. released ...

Ukraine has published technical details about Russia's new S8000 'BanderoL' cruise missile. The weapon is made with a model aircraft engine available from online marketplaces such as AliExpress for ...

Fighter jet engines are complex machines that enable aircraft to reach incredible speeds. The modern fighter jet is defined by its engine, which accelerates a tremendous volume of air rearward that it ...

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 ...

Is it real? Well, yes and no. “While it’s not to scale, this 1.5 inch long model was made entirely from direct metal laser melting and required no assembly,” explains GE in another tweet. Does it work ...