IN A NUTSHELL ✈️ Pratt & Whitney secures a contract to produce the latest F135 engines for the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. 🔍 The engine features low-observability capabilities, enhancing mission success in challenging environments. 💼 The F135 …

The burning question at hand is: Will Lockheed Martin build the hypersonic SR-72 aircraft? It’s a topic that taps into both cutting-edge aerospace innovation and global strategic balance, with implications for reconnaissance, rapid strike options, and the …

Since Pratt & Whitney emerged as a startup a century ago, Aviation Week has chronicled its growth into a world-leading propulsion powerhouse. In this first of two special features, we look back through our archives at some of the company’s key …

KINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 9, 2025 – The University of Rhode Island’s Forensic Science Partnership lecture series begins a new year on the crime beat on Sept. 12. One of the more unique lecture series in Rhode Island welcomes budding forensic scientists — with …

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 …

U.S. electric power startup Magnix says it aims to continue working with NASA on the technology regardless of whether the full-scale hybrid propulsion flight demonstrator it is developing with the agency is axed under budget cuts proposed by the Trump …

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, …

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 …

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 …