General Electric and Rolls-Royce will spend their own money to keep the F136 engine alive as the companies and their supporters in Congress fight a 90-day stop-work order issued on 24 March by the US ...

Rolls-Royce welcomed continued Congressional support for competition as the US House and Senate approved funding for the F136 engine program, and President Barack Obama signed it into law. The ...

LONDON — The Dutch government has no direct sway over the discussion of whether to fund one or two engines for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but the defense ministry has come out in favor of keeping ...

There's a sound that stays with you. The shriek of a flat-plane crank V8 that rises past 8,000 rpm, changes up a gear and the drama begins again. Raw, mechanical, and completely unbothered by the idea ...

Despite what can only be described as a lack of interest on the parts of the White House, the Pentagon and many members of Congress, General Electric Co. and Rolls-Royce said Tuesday that they have ...

The wraps came off the new GE Rolls-Royce F136 engine for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme at the show yesterday. Now the engine is expected to begin ground-testing next ...

FiatAvio has joined the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 engine team that is developing the powerplant for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Under a memorandum of understanding signed ...

The F136 jet engine may never power the military’s next-generation F-35 fighters, but it’s already a veteran of a years-long war over how the Pentagon buys weapons. To lawmakers who want to keep the ...

GE Aviation, together with Rolls-Royce and 20 suppliers throughout the region, has helped develop the F136 engine to power the F-35. The engine is 80 percent complete, and the Government ...

General Electric has had a successful afterburner test on its F136 aircraft engine, the Evandale, Ohio-based company said today, March 22. The GE Rolls-Royce fighter engine team hit “full afterburner” ...

V8 engines have had tremendous success since dominating the American muscle-car era. Many times, they've powered some very upscale automobiles, from expensive hypercars, to luxury sedans, and super ...