The Rolls-Royce Griffith concept was a fantastically overengineered attempt to create a Mach 2.5 VTOL passenger aircraft using 68 jet engines, with vertical lift jets packed around the cabin and ...

The Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion program is now projected to complete prototyping work in 2031, a cumulative delay of three years compared to earlier projections.

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland and Labrador--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Duxion Motors is celebrating the successful ground test of its patented eJet Motor, the electric jet engine poised to make high-speed electric ...

US aircraft engine supplier GE Aerospace has cleared the XA102 adaptive cycle engine for ...

The world’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, especially for transportation, has left a deep mark on both the planet and public health. Burning these fuels releases a flood of greenhouse gases, which ...

In the endless pursuit of faster, more efficient travel, engineers have been cooking up all kinds of new forms of propulsion. One of the most interesting to emerge in the last decade is the electric ...

S.L. Ross Jr., 88, a retired Air Force colonel who helped develop and improve jet propulsion engines, died of prostate cancer Feb. 27 at Mount Vernon Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Alexandria.

NASA is working on a lithium-plasma electric thruster that uses roughly 90% less fuel than chemical rockets. Can this new ...