AI search tool helps design next generation hydrogen jet engine

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
On paper, the goal was straightforward: design a hydrogen powered aircraft engine that could outperform conventional gas turbines, while cutting emissions at the same time. Rather than simply proving that hydrogen can power a jet, engineers at Pratt and Whitney and the RTX Technology Research Center set out to discover what kind of engine architecture hydrogen could uniquely enable, and how far