The engine that powered this knight of the sky was the General Electric J47. The J47 arose from an initiative spearheaded by GE beginning in 1946. The engine utilized innovative compressor and ...

The company built the first U.S. jet engine, the I-A, in 1942. In 1949, GE developed the J47, which would become the most-produced jet engine in history. Today, GE Aerospace designs and ...

Area ruling, which reduces drag at transonic speeds, enabled the early 1960s Convair F-102 to reach Mach 1.2. Courtesy Franklin Ratliff General Electric’s J47 and J79 and Westinghouse’s J46 ...

It was powered by four General Electric J47-GE-13 turbojet engines, enabling speeds ranging from 365 to 566 miles per hour.

With a half-dozen .50 caliber M3 machine guns, the F-86 had a bite to match its bark, which came from a General Electric J47 engine. That power plant drove the F-86A to a world speed record of 671 ...