Adaptive cycle engines are specially designed to alternate between efficiency and raw power—extending an aircraft’s range without compromising on speed during engagements. The modern fighter jet is ...

Astro Mechanica – founded in 2021 by Ian Brooke and with a tight ship of only eight employees – is an aerospace startup developing what it calls a turboelectric adaptive engine for both subsonic and ...

It will soon be a year since American president Donald Trump announced the official birth of the country’s and the world’s first-ever sixth-generation combat aircraft, the Boeing F-47, and not much ...

Images of the proposed platform released by airframers indicate that the partners appear to agree on the need for an adaptive- or variable-cycle engine. Credit: Airbus Defense and Space The ...

Although there are only a handful of fifth-generation military aircraft in operation today, the world's largest powers are already looking to develop even more potent, sixth-gen fighters. In American ...

Just because history tends to repeat itself does not mean it should. It is not unusual for technology to take time to mature. That is especially true in the world of jet engines; in fact, technology ...