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Fighter Jet

The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Crammed With Electronics. It’s Up to GE Aerospace to Keep Them Working

Christine Gibson
August 24, 2023

The Air Force’s chief of staff called it “a computer that happens to fly.” An Air Force squadron commander called its pilots “quarterbacks in the sky.” The F-35 Lightning II, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, can reach supersonic speeds and may be the world’s stealthiest fighter plane.

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The Future of Flight: GE Aerospace Closes Week at Paris Air Show with Big Deals on GEnx, LEAP, and Avionics

Jay Stowe
June 26, 2023

Anyone who visited the GE Aerospace chalet last week at the Paris Air Show, on the grounds of Le Bourget Airport, came away with three distinct impressions: The market for engines is growing, lean is working, and new technologies are on the rise.

Aerospace

‘The First 21st-Century Engine’: GE’s Next-Gen XA100 Fighter Jet Engine Passes Its Last Big Test

Jeremy K. Spencer
September 12, 2022
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“Designing a fighter jet engine is an incredibly humbling experience,” says David Tweedie, VP and general manager for advanced products at GE’s Edison Works. “There’s literally zero room for error,” which is why Tweedie is so excited about GE’s new XA100 passing its final and most rigorous test — conducted in August at Tennessee’s Arnold Air Force Base — and what that means for the future of America’s national security. 

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Aerospace

Testing, Testing: NASA’s New Supersonic Jet To Start Ground Trials

Jay Stowe
January 18, 2022

The Concorde completed its last transatlantic flight in 2003, but commercial aviation has kept looking for new ways to fly faster than the speed of sound. That chance just got one step closer to reality.

In August 2020, NASA took delivery of the first F414-GE-100 engine built by GE Aviation for its X-59 QueSST plane, a one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft that will fly faster than Mach 1 and higher than most high-performance aircraft, at 55,000 feet.

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Aerospace

The X-Factor: 22,000 Pounds Of Thrust Just Got Quieter

Jay Stowe
October 06, 2020

The Concorde completed its last transatlantic flight in 2003, but commercial aviation has been pining for a chance to rekindle the romance of flying at the speed of sound. That chance just got one step closer to reality.

In August, NASA took delivery of the first F414-GE-100 engine for its X-59 QueSST plane, a one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft that will fly faster than Mach 1 and higher than most high-performance aircraft at 55,000 feet.

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Aerospace

Big Deal: The Air Force’s Largest Transport Craft, Powered By GE Engines, Taxis Into The Spotlight

Sam Worley
Tomas Kellner
February 20, 2020
There’s a reason the C-5M Super Galaxy plane looks like a whale with wings: The latest version of a military transport jet first developed 50 years ago by Lockheed, this behemoth can carry two battle tanks across the Pacific Ocean in a matter of hours on a single tank of jet fuel. In fact, it’s the largest transport aircraft in the U.S. Air Force’s entire fleet.
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Supersonic Travel

Fast Friends: The World’s First Supersonic Business Jet Gets A New Engine

Tomas Kellner
October 16, 2018
The Concorde had its place in the sun for 27 years, shuttling passengers between Europe, the Americas and Singapore at supersonic speeds. But when British Airways retired the last jet in 2003 “for commercial reasons with passenger revenue falling steadily against a backdrop of rising maintenance costs for the aircraft,” it also put the brakes on commercial supersonic flight.
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Supersonic Flight

A Quieter Sonic Boom: GE Is Helping NASA, Lockheed Martin Design A New Supersonic Jet

Fred Guterl
September 11, 2018
When Chuck Yeager flew NASA’s first rocket plane, the X-1, past the sound barrier for the first time in October 1947, confirmation of his feat rang out across the desert in the form of a sonic boom — the thunder caused by compression of sound waves at the bow of the plane as it reached Mach 1. In the seven decades since, the boom has remained an impediment to widespread supersonic travel, outside of the military.
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Supersonic Flight

Back To The Future: This Pointy-Nosed Plane Could Make Jet Set Feel Supersonic Again

Tomas Kellner
December 15, 2017
The Concorde, the iconic pointy-nosed supersonic jet that shuttled passengers between Paris, London, New York and other choice destinations, landed for the last time 14 years ago, after 27 years in service. The only civil supersonic airplane to enter service apart from Russia’s TU-144 jet, the plane was never replaced. “The Concorde was successful from a technical standpoint, but in terms of economics, it was too expensive to operate, its range was limited, it was noisy and its fuel consumption was high,” says Jeff Miller, vice president of marketing at the U.S.
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Aerospace

Comeback Kid: The Next Sound-Barrier-Busting Passenger Jet Could Be Quietly Supersonic

Tomas Kellner
May 26, 2016
The Concorde was the first and last supersonic jet in passenger service. But that claim comes with a caveat.
The plane could accelerate above the speed of sound only over the ocean. The prospect of noisy sonic booms caused by the plane crossing the sound barrier forced pilots to hold back the throttle above towns and cities after takeoff and before touchdown. “This speed limit actually made the plane much less efficient,” says Karl Wisniewski, director of advanced programs at GE Aviation. “It was designed to fly fast.”
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