In the years following World War II, the American aviation industry and the military anticipated revolutionary changes in flight. The war had been fought largely with aircraft powered by reciprocating ...

Chinese fighter jet mid-flight before airshow - Alert5/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The roots of the jet engine can be traced back to before World War II, and they generally still work on the same ...

The rotating detonation ramjet engine provides a more compact, lightweight design than standard engine designs, and uses a continuous, self-sustaining detonation wave. GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin ...

The Solid Fuel Ramjet (SFRJ) and the Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet (DMRJ) are seeing rapid success as the U.S. hikes spending and development of hypersonic weapons. GE Aerospace has shed more light on ...

A Chinese lab tests a next-generation engine designed to push aircraft from takeoff to hypersonic speeds in one system.