TURBOSHAFT: Military rotorcraft programs, including re-engining efforts, will drive a slight upward trend for turboshaft engines in the near future, although the civilian market for such engines will ...

General Electric Aviation, Lynn, Massachusetts, is awarded a $683,716,135 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the production and delivery of 169 T408-GE-400 (T408) turboshaft engines, ...

GE Aerospace has successfully demonstrated a one-megawatt hybrid electric propulsion system as part of a $5.1 million research and development contract with the US Army Combat Capabilities Development ...

GE Aerospace GE recently announced that it has conducted a successful demonstration of a hybrid electric turboshaft propulsion system for the U.S. Army. The project was undertaken as part of a $5.1 ...

Four Rolls-Royce MT7 turboshaft engines power the U.S. Navy’s LCAC 100 landing craft, a hovercraft built by Textron Inc. Rolls-Royce Corp. in Indianapolis has drawn a new U.S. Navy contract worth $167 ...

Italy’s Avio Aero will join forces with MTU Aero Engines and Safran Helicopter Engines to develop a next-generation turboshaft for future European military rotorcraft applications. However, the GE ...

Pratt & Whitney Canada began development of small gas turbines in the mid-1950s. Experience was first gained with the JT12 turbojet, produced by P&WA in the United States for aircraft such as the ...

Russia’s United Engine Corporation (UEC) has handed over its new VK650V turboshaft engines for flight testing on the Ansat light-twin helicopter. The engines are intended to replace Pratt & Whitney ...

AN AMISH BUGGY that would normally be drawn by horses has been fitted with a turbo jet engine. “It’s like oil and water, they should not go together,” jokes its creator Chad Clark. The outrageous ...