New Atlas

Hybrid jet engines work to excel where pure-electric jets fail

A hybrid-electric jet engine may seem as absurd as a horse-drawn Zeppelin, but GE Aerospace is ground testing a new ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

US aerospace giant tests hybrid electric engine for future narrowbody aircraft

GE Aerospace announced on January 26 that it reached a key milestone in hybrid-electric ...
The Aviationist

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Fires Up Engine For The First Time Ahead Of First Flight

X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved a key milestone as it began testing the engine that will power the X-59, ...
SlashGear

Do Gliders Have Engines? Here's How The Aircraft Works

You see a plane, you expect to hear an engine. But gliders are a different breed of aircraft, representing flight in its purest form. They are frankly a testament to just how far clever engineering ...
autoevolution

NASA’s New Hybrid-Electric Jet Engine Just Proved It Can Power an Airliner

American space agency NASA and GE Aerospace announced the first integrated test of a Passport engine in Hybrid Thermally ...
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 ...