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China’s first homegrown 1,200‑kW turboprop aircraft engine aces cold ignition test

A 1,200-kilowatt-class turboprop engine developed in China has successfully completed its ignition test conducted ...
Morning Overview on MSN

China’s 1,200 kW homegrown turboprop engine nails brutal cold start test

China has pushed a new piece of aviation hardware through one of the harshest trials in the business, proving that its first ...
FlightGlobal

Engine tests progress in Russian civil supersonic demonstrator research programme

Russian research efforts to create a new supersonic civil aircraft demonstrator have edged forward with completion of a phase ...
Seeking Alpha

RTX's Pratt & Whitney completes critical engine testing for Collaborative Combat Aircraft

Current production engines can offer up to 20% increased thrust for unmanned applications EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (RTX) (NYSE: RTX) business, has ...
Aviation Week Network

Startup’s Supersonic Electric Jet Engine Heads To Altitude Testing

U.S. startup Astro Mechanica plans to take its hybrid-electric supersonic engine into high-altitude and high-speed ground testing this year as it moves toward flying the unique powerplant in 2027 in a ...
NextBigFuture

Lockheed and GE Test Hypersonic Engine

GE and Lockheed ground tested a new air-breathing hypersonic jet engine capable of powering missiles to speeds well in excess ...
WFTV

NASA testing new X-59 aircraft engines, designed to fly supersonic speeds without the sonic booms

A team has started engine testing for the X-59. It’s a supersonic aircraft that’ll fly without generating loud sonic booms.
UPI

NASA runs first engine tests on supersonic X-59 research aircraft

Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...
New Atlas

World's first rotating detonation rocket engine flight ... maybe

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...
The National Interest on MSN

Boeing Awarded $2 Billion Contract for B-52 Engine Replacement

The new upgrade package—on top of an existing $2.6 billion contract with UK engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce—will keep the ...
Flightglobal

SJ-100’s domestic engines tested for resilience to water ingestion

United Aircraft has carried out water-ingestion tests on its initial import-substituted Yakovlev SJ-100, equipped with Aviadvigatel PD-8 powerplants. The aircraft, number 97023, carried out the runway ...