The Valkyrie was powered by six General Electric YJ93 afterburning turbojet engines, producing a combined thrust of 180,000 pounds. The Valkyrie’s sleek, ...

At the time, this speed was unmatched across the globe. The platform was powered by six General Electric YJ93 turbojet engines, which allowed for nearly 29,000 pounds of thrust.

General Electric is up 39% since the beginning of the year, and at $175.04 per share it is trading close to its 52-week high of $180.12 from March 2024.

The XB-70 was powered by six General Electric YJ93-3 turbojet engines, each in the 30,000-pound-thrust class, with controllable inlets to maintain efficient airflow to the engines.

By 2021, General Electric’s U.S. headcount had fallen by almost 75% from its peak. Finally, in April of this year, GE split into a wind power company, a health care company and an aerospace company.

Culp’s moves helped to turn around shares of GE, which had fallen by 45% in 2017 and another 57% in 2018. Its shares nearly doubled, rising 95%, in 2023, and were up another 37% this year ...

General Electric completes break up, GE Aerospace emerges as standalone company. By Jon Hemmerdinger 2024-04-02T12:40:00+01:00. Once-mighty US industrial giant General Electric is now called GE ...

General Electric is on the precipice of a long-planned breakup into three companies: GE Vernova (energy), GE Healthcare, and GE Aerospace. Executives say it’s the beginning of a promising new era.

In the midst of the Cold War, when fear of Soviet bombers reaching American soil was at its height, the U.S. Air Force was on a quest to field an interceptor that could meet and neutralize this threat ...

Conceived in the heat of the Cold War, the North American XB-70 Valkyrie remains one of the most impressive and ambitious military aircraft projects in history. Intended as a strategic bomber that ...

Venerable General Electric (GE), once the longest-serving member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, will officially split into two companies at the start of next month. And the old GE name is ...

Following development of the YJ93-GE-3 turbojets for the Mach 3-capable XB-70 Valkyrie, the company tested a scramjet engine for the AFRL in the late 1960s.