United States, July 20 -- GE Aerospace and Shield AI have successfully completed integration, actuation, and engine light-off testing of the advanced Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) for Shield AI's X-BAT aircraft, a critical milestone in the program's path to vertical flight.Engineers from both companies modified and integrated the AVEN into GE Aerospace's F110-GE-129E engine, then completed functional checkouts and engine light-off to verify system performance at GE Aerospace's test operations site in Peebles, Ohio. This is the first fully integrated test campaign of its kind since the 1990s, bringing AVEN's hardware, controls, and engine systems together to execute coordinated nozzle movement sequences using defined test prot...