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XA100 Adaptive Cycle Engine Is the F-35's Next High-Thrust Combat Heart

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is one of the few fifth-generation military aircraft currently in operation. Compared with all the others still flying in the world, it’s a true junior, having ...
Aviation Week

GE Studies XA100 Adaptive Engine Option For F-35B

FARNBOROUGH—With ongoing ground tests of the General Electric XA100 adaptive cycle combat engine set to end soon, the engine-maker is studying how the advanced propulsion system—proposed for the ...
Flying

GE Aviation Concludes Testing F-35 Adaptive Cycle Engine Prototype

GE Aviation’s (NYSE: GE) XA100 adaptive cycle engine is ready to progress from prototype into development following testing with the U.S. Air Force, according to the manufacturer. The XA100, along ...
Dayton Daily News

Air Force picks GE as one of five for $975M jet engine prototype work

The Air Force has chosen five companies to develop prototypes of a next-generation fighter jet engine, and General Electric is among them. GE Co. has been awarded an ...
Business Wire

GE Begins Industry’s First Adaptive Cycle Engine Tests at Arnold Engineering Development Complex

TULLAHOMA, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Air Force and GE on March 25 th initiated Phase 2 testing of GE’s second XA100 adaptive cycle engine at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development ...
Aviation Week

GE, USAF Testing XA100 Combat Engine

General Electric and the U.S. Air Force have begun ground tests of the XA100 adaptive cycle combat engine at the service’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) in Tennessee. Developed by GE’s ...
Jane's Information Group

GE concludes Adaptive Engine Transition Program effort, awaits F-35 decision

The GE XA100 adaptive engine undergoing trials in a ground test rig. (General Electric) General Electric (GE) has completed its final major contract milestone of the US Air Force's (USAF's) Adaptive ...
Flightglobal

USAF favours P&W F-35 engine upgrade over adaptive-cycle engine replacement

The US Air Force (USAF) supports upgrading the propulsion system on its existing Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighters, rather than purchasing an entirely new adaptive engine for the jets. The ...
The Business Journals

GE Aerospace completes series of tests on XA100 adaptive-cycle engine

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min GE Aerospace has completed a ...
Ainonline.com

GE Believes Time is Right for Transformational Engine

The XA100 is the world’s first flight-weight, three-stream, adaptive cycle engine to run, and could power F-35s by the end of the 2020s. The F-35A will likely get a new adaptive cycle engine by the ...
Flightglobal

GE continues pushing F-35 engine replacement over upgrade

GE Aerospace is continuing to press the US Air Force (USAF) to procure a new powerplant for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fifth-generation fighter, rather than opting to perform core upgrades on the type’s ...