Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese scientists from the Taihang National Laboratory, an aerospace research instituted located in southwest region of the ...

Conforming with requirements of the Navy missile it was to power, design of the Fairchild J44 turbojet began in 1947. The J44 (commercial designation FT-101 E) made its first flight in 1950 powering ...

As of January, the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program has moved into hardware production. Two airframes are now being modified for flight testing with Rolls-Royce F130 engines, ensuring this ...

RTX (NYSE:RTX) has been selected for a Pentagon backed effort to rebuild North American capacity for critical rare earth metals used in defense systems. The company is involved in projects aimed at ...

Thirty years ago, GE Aerospace transformed commercial aviation with a material swap that most ...

Two General Electric Type I-A turbojet engines powered the first American jet aircraft, the Bell XP-59A, which first flew on October 2, 1942, near Muroc, California. The Type I-A was derived from the ...

Kratos Defense plans a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Oklahoma for GEK turbojet engine production, expanding jobs and capabilities. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has ...

It sounds like something out of science fiction, but the idea of a turbine jet engine in a mainstream production car is not ...

Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, was awarded a follow-on contract from Leidos Dynetics to supply TJ150 engines for their AGM-190A small cruise missile.

When a bunch of British dudes get together in a shed, you never know what they'll turn out. One day, it might be a drop-top sports car; the next, it's a satellite, and then they'll find a way to build ...