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 …

Ammon News - The concept of blended-wing aircraft – where fuselage and wing are all one structure – is not new. But this radical design might soon be a credible concept for airliners. In March 2025, a small V-shaped remote-controlled aircraft took off for …

Commercial planes are steadily coming equipped with more and more powerful turbofans. These engines produce enormous amounts of thrust, and when they’re cruising at high altitude, they sip fuel with more efficiency than ever before. In the thin, cold air ( …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …