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

DAYTON, Ohio — The future of the U.S. military’s Adaptive Engine Transition Program is still up in the air, but one service is trying to fold the effort’s technological innovations into an advanced ...

GE Adaptive Cycle Engine (ACE) is the latest in a proud legacy of game-changing propulsion innovations from GE Aviation. It was developed under the U.S. Department of Defense’s Adaptive Versatile ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fighter engines are incredibly complex machines designed and fielded with indelible traits and functions that are foundational to a jet’s performance. Thrust is critical, but an engine’s appetite for ...

The US Air Force will establish an “adaptive engine” demonstration and validation programme in fiscal year 2016 if Congress approves $1 billion in proposed funding, the USAF confirms to Flightglobal.

“It’s like a transforming engine — literally,” explained David Tweedie, GE Edison Works general manager for advanced combat engines, of the XA100 powerplant that is now in the running to power the U.S ...

A 10- to 15-year look ahead into Pratt & Whitney’s vision for military engine technology reveals a very different kind of propulsion system. It may not be enough for the motor powering the next ...

The U.S. Air Force's top civilian is having second thoughts about a recent choice for the Joint Strike Fighter. (Senior Airman Alexander Cook/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — U.S. Air Force Secretary ...