Russian powerplant specialist United Engine has carried out initial testing of a pulse-detonation rocket motor which has potential application to orbital spaceplanes or hypersonic aircraft.

Russia has demonstrated a pulse-detonation engine (PDE) with low-energy ignition and a specific impulse of 800s in static conditions, about half that of comparable hydrocarbon-fuelled ramjet at Mach 2 ...

Pulse detonation technology being pursued by General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce offers engine-makers the potential for improving gas turbine specific fuel consumption by double digits ...

In spite of the doubt and past failures in Russia’s aviation history, the hype surrounding the MiG-41, referred to as the PAK ...

RDE is a propulsion system that promises higher power, greater fuel efficiency, and lower emissions than conventional rocket or jet engines. The RDE generates thrust by sustaining a circulating ...

Engines that convert chemical energy from fuel into kinetic energy via explosive detonation, rather than slower deflagration combustion as seen in typical internal combustion engines. Categories ...

Scientists at the forefront of hypersonic weapons research in China say they have a more powerful revolutionary air-breathing engine. The “revolutionary” air-breathing engine could lift an aircraft ...

Bellevue developers of a new type of jet engine are finding the real money may lie in using the engine's "pulse detonation" technology to clean dirty power-generation furnaces. The new market is so ...

Perhaps the opening is now for the greatest of all space adventures to be partaken by the two countries. The cause of space is meant to unite, not divide. In the last week, Russian President Vladimir ...

Researchers in China have introduced a new hypersonic engine concept by integrating a ramjet with a rotary detonation engine. A team at Tsinghua University in Beijing created a new design known as the ...

The bright minds from the University of Central Florida (UCF) are on a path to revolutionize the future of air travel, and even facilitate interplanetary transportation. In the quest to find a ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...