Wave Engine Corp. Begins Deliveries of J-1 Wave Engine Production Units
July 09 2024 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Company delivers first production units of jet engine that
requires no moving parts; demonstrates additional flights with J-1
engine
Wave Engine Corp. J-1 Engine Powering its
Scitor-D (“Demonstrator”) Aircraft
The North American Wave Engine Corporation (“Wave Engine
Corp.”), a leader in affordable next-gen propulsion technology and
aerial systems, has delivered an initial set of production J-1 wave
engine systems to an aerospace prime contractor on contract with
the US government. The company has multiple customers that are
integrating its wave engine technology on UAV platforms as market
demand grows for low cost and rapidly manufacturable propulsion
systems.
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Wave Engine Corp.'s Scitor-D
(“Demonstrator”) Aircraft mid-flight. (Photo: Business Wire)
Daanish Maqbool, CEO of Wave Engine Corp., said, “We are looking
forward to working with our customers to increase production and
bring an unmatched combination of cost, simplicity and flight
performance to market.”
Wave Engine Corp. has conducted over 800 engine tests and 13
powered flights on 2 aircraft. The most recent flights involved the
J-1 engine powering the company’s Scitor-D series of UAVs and were
conducted with safety oversight from the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic
Aviation Partnership. A video of one of the test flights was made
available here:
https://youtu.be/tzkVzNuEaW0
“We’re grateful for the opportunity to work with a company that
pushes the boundaries of propulsion systems,” said Tombo Jones,
director of the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership.
“The technology that they are working on marks an important step in
advancement for the drone industry, so we were excited to have Wave
Engine fly at our test site.”
Wave engines are a class of aircraft engines that operate using
pressure waves instead of rotating machinery. Intermittent
combustion inside a hollow tube produces pressure waves that push
hot gases and produce thrust. Wave Engine Corp.’s proprietary
technology enables high speeds and allows for an order-of-magnitude
reduction in the cost and complexity of jet propulsion, which is a
critical enabler for an increasing number of applications that call
for affordable and rapidly producible jet propulsion systems and
aircraft.
About Wave Engine Corporation
Based in Baltimore, MD, Wave Engine Corp. is a focused group of
scientists, engineers and former Fortune 500 executives that is
leveraging recent technological developments in propulsion,
acoustics and combustion control to develop the next generation of
propulsion and aircraft systems.
Learn more at http://wave-engine.com
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