The US Air Force is expected to sanction a new round of studies into combat turbofan engines equipped with a pulse detonation afterburner (PDA) in place of a reheat system after promising studies of a ...

I was surprised to find an article (Flight International, 16-22 April) on pulse detonation written as if this were new technology. Surely, in the Second World War, it was pulse detonation that Hitler ...

The Rotating Detonation Engine being developed by Pratt & Whitney has no moving parts, which reduces complexity and costs, and could help enable high-speed, long-range flight with increased efficiency ...