Pratt & Whitney and General Electric completed the Assembly Readiness Reviews of XA103 and XA102 engines, activating their supply chains to prepare for the assembly of the physical NGAP engines. The ...
Revealing an initial rendition of the fighter engine for the first time, GE says contract awards follow completion of the XA102 assembly review milestone in May and a detailed design review in ...
In the 2020s, the F-35 is being upgraded with the XA100 adaptive engine, a next-generation system using a 3-stream design to increase range by around 30%, improve efficiency, and enhance cooling, ...
The US Air Force is funding development of adaptive-cycle turbofans under the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion programme. GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney (P&W) have advanced their designs for ...
GE Aerospace’s XA102 adaptive engine builds on earlier development of the variable cycle XA100. Credit: Guy Norris/Aviation Week GE Aerospace has taken another step toward building the first XA102 ...
March 3 (UPI) --In recent talks with Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby recently praised South Korea as a "model ally" for committing to increase ...
It will soon be a year since American president Donald Trump announced the official birth of the country’s and the world’s first-ever sixth-generation combat aircraft, the Boeing F-47, and not much ...