The General Electric GE36 was an experimental aircraft engine, a hybrid between a turbofan and a turboprop, known as an unducted fan (UDF) or propfan...

was developed into the larger F414 turbofan, as well as the experimental GE36 civil propfan. GE developed the F404 for the F/A-18 Hornet, shortly after...

General Electric Company, doing business as GE Aerospace, is an American aircraft engine supplier that is headquartered in Evendale, Ohio, outside Cincinnati...

February 1984 to continue its research, eventually building the experimental GE36. One of the major innovations for the engine were its carbon fiber composite...

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Variable stability, thrust vectoring (Redesignated X-62 Vista in 2021) General Electric GE36 testbed 1986 – Propfan engine testbed on a modified Boeing 727 Goodyear...

an MD-81 was used as a testbed for propfan engines, such as the General Electric GE36 and the Pratt & Whitney/Allison 578-DX. By mid-1989, it was clear...

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its desire to be a 7J7 launch customer. On August 20, 1986, the General Electric GE36 UDF engine was tested in flight for the first time, on a Boeing...

shuttle training aircraft later that year. The GE36 Unducted Fan (UDF), from American engine maker General Electric (GE) with 35-percent participation from French...