In the years following World War II, the American aviation industry and the military anticipated revolutionary changes in flight. The war had been fought largely with aircraft powered by reciprocating ...

China has unveiled a new type of air-breathing engine that could replace today’s turbine-ramjet systems, and reshape how future fighter jets and missiles achieve hypersonic speeds. The so-called ...

General Electric (GE) has revealed design details of the turbofan ramjet at the heart of one of NASA’s long-term third-generation Space Shuttle replacement proposals. The Revolutionary Turbine ...

The rotating detonation ramjet engine provides a more compact, lightweight design than standard engine designs, and uses a continuous, self-sustaining detonation wave. GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin ...