Engines

News and developments about aircraft engines, including turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft and piston.

Engines

Precision Aviation To Acquire PTB Group

Precision Aviation Group's acquisition of PTB Group will expand its markets in turboprop engines as well as supply chain services.
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Aircraft

American Airlines Plans Hydrogen-powered Regional Fleet

American Airlines is investing in hydrogen pioneer ZeroAvia and may buy up to 100 of its hydrogen-electric propulsion systems to convert regional jets.
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Aircraft

Pratt & Whitney Teams With Hybrid-Electric Specialist VerdeGo Aero

Raytheon's investment in VerdeGo Aero launches a hybrid-electric propulsion collaboration between the start-up and aircraft engine maker Pratt & Whitney.
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Aircraft

Ampaire Flies Hybrid Electric EEL To Oshkosh

Ampaire's EEL completed the longest flight by a hybrid-electric aircraft when it was flown from California to Oshkosh.
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Engines

Hydroplane Waitlisting Orders for Fuel Cell Powerplant

Hydroplane is bringing its hydrogen fuel cell powerplant to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh to assess interest from aircraft builders.
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GKN Invests in Parallel Paths to Aviation Sustainability

The aerostructures and engine components group is applying two approaches to developing hydrogen propulsion, as well as supporting new electric aircraft.
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Engines

GE Believes Time is Right for Transformational Engine

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.
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Engines

Farsound Taps Creative Campaign for Farnborough Show

UK-based MRO Farsound Aviation is using a creative concept to draw attendee interest at the Farnborough Airshow.
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Aircraft

Airbus Launches Program to Probe Hydrogen Power Contrails

Airbus has launched the Blue Condor project, using a hydrogen-powered glider to study the composition of hydrogen-generated contrails.
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Aircraft

P&W, Collins Team on Hybrid-Electric AAM Demonstrator

P&W and Collins are developing a hybrid-electric technology demonstrator for advanced air mobility vehicles.
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Maintenance and Modifications

Delta TechOps Joins CFM Leap-1B MRO Network

CFM named Delta TechOps its first MRO network provider for the Leap-1B in North America under a branded service agreement.
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Engines

ZeroAvia and PowerCell Sign Fuel Cell Stacks MoU

The agreement between ZeroAvia and PowerCell will see production of 5,000 aviation-optimized fuel cell stacks between 2024 and 2028.
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Engines

Pratt & Whitney To Open India Engineering Center Next Year

The new P&W Indian Engineering Center will add to centers in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, and Poland.
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Aircraft

Rolls-Royce and Hyundai to Advance Hydrogen Propulsion

Rolls-Royce and Korean automaker Hyundai aim to conduct a joint hydrogen fuel-cell electric aircraft demonstration in 2025.
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Engines

Pratt & Whitney Process Modernization a Factory Focus

Pratt & Whitney is highlighting its Industry 4.0 transformation at Farnborough as “the next evolution in lean manufacturing.”
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Engines

GE Tests Megawatt-class Hybrid System at High Altitude

The test marks a first for a megawatt class, multi-kilovolt hybrid-electric propulsion system in simulated altitude conditions for a single-aisle aircraft.
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Aircraft

Airbus, CFM Team on Open Fan Engine Flight Test

Airbus and CFM announced a collaboration to flight test CFM’s open fan engine architecture on an A380 demonstrator.
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Aircraft

Air Lease Taps Pratt GTFs for More Than 220 Jets

Air Lease has agreed to buy Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan engines to power A320s and A220s for a large new aircraft order.
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Aircraft

Raytheon Subsidiaries Update Market on Pending Innovation

Raytheon is preparing for what forecasters say will be an exponential increase in travel in the next five to 10 years.
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Airlines

New GE Aerospace Unit Laser-focused on Airline Recovery

GE Aerospace's new CEO said it could take another 18 months for the air transport sector to get back to pre-Covid levels of performance.
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Engines

PBS Unveils Turbine Engine for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Engineering company updates original engine; new engine breaks record for thrust-to-weight ratio
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Engines

EasyJet and Rolls-Royce Launch Hydrogen Engine Partnership

Full-scale hydrogen-fueled ground testing of the Rolls-Royce Pearl 15 engine will follow initial trials on the AE 2100 powerplant.
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Engines

Pratt Launches Certification Testing for GTF Advantage

Pratt & Whitney unveiled the GTF Advantage engine in December for Airbus's A320neo.
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Engines

CF34 Engine Line Surpasses 200 Million Hours

GE's CF34 engine family has logged the third-highest number of flight hours of any turbine engine design.
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Engines

Rolls-Royce Details Hydrogen Program Progress

Engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is developing hydrogen and hybrid-electric power solutions.
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Aircraft

CFM To Build 34K-pound thrust-rated Leap for A321XLR

The highest-thrust version of the Leap, physically identical to all other Leap-1A engines, will obtain the thrust bump by means of a data plug change.
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Engines

Rolls-Royce in Final Build Phase for UltraFan Demonstrator

The UltraFan engine will perform its first run later this year, powered by 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel.
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Engines

GKN Aerospace Teams with GE Aviation on CFM RISE

GKN and GE Aviation are developing the open-fan design for the RISE engine demonstrator program.
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Engines

GE Aviation Forges Ahead with Engine Programs

The XA100 fighter engine and T901 rotary-wing powerplant programs are making strides, while GE’s existing portfolio continues to show strong sales.
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Engines

Collins and P&W Unveil Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Systems

Pratt & Whitney is preparing to start ground and flights testing a new 1-MW electric motor from sister company Collins with one of its aircraft engines,
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