GE Aviation’s (NYSE: GE) XA100 adaptive cycle engine is ready to progress from prototype into development following testing with the U.S. Air Force, according to the manufacturer. The XA100, along ...

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 major ...

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 ...

GE Aviation has completed testing of the experimental adaptive engine the company has been developing for the US Air Force (USAF) since 2016. Under the service’s Adaptive Engine Transition Program ...

The Air Force has chosen five companies to develop prototypes of a next-generation fighter jet engine, and General Electric is among them. GE Co. has been awarded an ...

The GE XA100 adaptive engine undergoing trials in a ground test rig. (General Electric) General Electric (GE) has completed its final major contract milestone of the US Air Force's (USAF's) Adaptive ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Electric (NYSE: GE) a potential $203 million undefinitized contract action for technology maturation and risk reduction support and a $99.5 million contract to ...

The XA100 is the world’s first flight-weight, three-stream, adaptive cycle engine to run, and could power F-35s by the end of the 2020s. The F-35A will likely get a new adaptive cycle engine by the ...

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The US Air Force (USAF) has reached a significant milestone in its effort to develop a sixth-generation jet engine. The service has completed detailed design reviews of two adaptive-cycle engine ...

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 ...