Le BOURGET, France — Moses Lake, Washington, will be the test site for a new hybrid-electric plane as part of an experiment that aims to make aircraft cleaner and more fuel efficient. RTX, an aerospace conglomerate that includes engine maker Pratt & …

LE BOURGET—RTX company Pratt & Whitney has appointed modification specialist AeroTEC to convert a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 turboprop into its long-planned Hybrid-Electric Propulsion (HEP) flight demonstrator. The modified aircraft, which was …

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Youngstown State University’s Lunabotics team, the Moon Miners, earned third place overall in the 2024 NASA Lunabotics Challenge. Lunabotics is a national engineering competition that tasks college teams with designing autonomous robots …

When Esthefani Montelon enrolled in Gavilan College’s Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) program in fall 2019, she had no idea she was embarking on a journey that would lead to aerospace engineering internships at NASA and Pratt & Whitney. “I wanted to …

A little more than two years after JetZero revealed ambitious plans to challenge the Airbus-Boeing air transport duopoly by developing a blended wing body (BWB) airliner, the California company remains on track to fly a full-scale demonstrator by late 2027 …

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Pratt & Whitney, the engine manufacturer based in the United States and a subsidiary of RTX, has announced several developments that would improve the maintenance capacity and capabilities of the PW1000G aircraft engine family, …

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JetZero has just announced it has chosen the legacy Pratt & Whitney PW2040 engine to power its demonstrator that is planned to fly in 2027 . Ambitiously, JetZero plans for the blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft (called the Z4) to enter commercial service …

Boeing and NASA are mutually agreeing to pause development of the X-66A, according to an April 25 Seattle Times report and an April 24 Aviation Week report plus April 24 Air Current reporting. Although most of the project's Boeing engineers are being …

Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of RTX, has provided an update on its Hydrogen Steam Injected, Inter-cooled Turbine Engine (HySIITE) program. The program, launched in 2022, received $3.8 million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced …