The U.S. Air Force and GE have completed testing on GE’s second XA100 adaptive cycle engine at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee. GE called it “the final major ...

Recent updates from the United States Air Force (USAF) regarding the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) fighter jet engines have shown a considerable jump in funding for each contractor of the ...

GE Aviation has completed testing of the experimental adaptive engine the company has been developing for the US Air Force (USAF) since 2016. Under the service’s Adaptive Engine Transition Program ...

Ever since 2016, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has been looking for a new engine to slap into its fifth-generation F-35 fighter plane. The engine didn’t get to be detailed until 2019, and testing didn’t ...

The GE XA100 adaptive engine undergoing trials in a ground test rig. (General Electric) General Electric (GE) has completed its final major contract milestone of the US Air Force's (USAF's) Adaptive ...

GE Aerospace reported it completed a fourth round of tests for the adaptive cycle engine technology it is researching for the U.S. Air Force as part of the Next Generational Adaptive Propulsion ...

Back in late 2020, American defense contractor GE announced the arrival of something it referred to as the “world’s first-ever flight-weight, three-stream adaptive cycle engine.” The unit, which is ...