
General Electric's [GE] GE Aerospace division said on Dec. 14 that it plans to demonstrate a full-scale dual-mode ramjet (DMRJ) hypersonic engine with rotating detonation combustion (RDC) next year, as GE tries to advance hypersonics at GE Aerospace's newly revealed comprehensive hypersonics program in Niskayuna, N.Y. GE said on Dec. 14 that its research center at Niskayuna has demonstrated "what is believed to be a world-first hypersonic" DMRJ rig test with RDC "in a supersonic flow stream." "This could help…