World-First Supercomputer Discovered This Invisible Flaw In All Jet Engines

Supercomputers are capable of a mind-boggling number of calculations and one of them just found a flaw in a piece of ...

Exclusive-Jet engine maker CFM studies plan B for next fuel-saving design, sources say

By Tim Hepher PARIS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - French-US jet engine maker CFM is studying a more conventional "advanced ducted" ...
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GE and Kratos complete high-altitude testing of GEK800 autonomous fighter engine

GE Aerospace and Kratos have concluded high-altitude testing of a small jet engine intended to power uncrewed fighter aircraft. The pair, which announced their intent to jointly develop the GEK800 ...
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Engine makers accelerate plans for new class of small turbofans amid autonomous fighter boom

Producers of military jet engines are rolling out new lines of small turbofans, eyeing an expected boom in demand for uncrewed fighter aircraft. US propulsion suppliers Pratt & Whitney (P&W), GE ...

GE Aerospace turns to robots and 'Lean' methods to tackle jet engine repair crunch

By Tim Hepher and Rajesh Kumar Singh SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (Reuters) - GE Aerospace technician Suresh Sinnaiyan has spent more than a decade repairing jet‑engine compressor blades by guiding them across a ...
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Hybrid jet engines work to excel where pure-electric jets fail

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 ...