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A hydrogen-powered aircraft just completed its longest test flight yet — a zero-emission engine that burns hydrogen instead of a drop of jet fuel

On April 4, 2026, a 7.5-tonne unmanned cargo aircraft lifted off from Zhuzhou, a manufacturing hub in China’s Hunan province, and flew for 16 minutes without burning a single drop of jet fuel. The ...

36-year-old jet engine designed for F-16 set to power world's first AI-piloted VTOL fighter

Shield AI’s unmanned vertical takeoff craft the X-BAT is employing axisymmetric vectoring, using a a jet engine first tested ...
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We toured a specially modified Boeing 747 used as a 'flying laboratory' to test new jet engines. See inside.

GE Aerospace is building the world's largest jet engine for Boeing's new 777X, and it's using a giant 747 to test it. We toured the unique plane.

A European jet startup wants to fly people from New York to London in 90 minutes using a hypersonic jet. See what the plane could look like.

The company's Destinus 3 prototype is expected to be the world's first hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft, soaring supersonic ...

First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

The first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity. That aviation feat comes at a time when jet fuel prices ...