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Boeing awarded $2 billion contract to continue work on B-52's new engines

The new contract covers the Post-Critical Design Review phase of the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program, which will ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Russia tests new 35,000-pound-force engine for its fifth-gen stealth fighter

Russia’s Su-57 stealth fighter has completed its first flight with a new fifth-generation engine to improve the fighter’s performance and support its modernization and export goals. The flight was the ...
Air Force Technology on MSN

Boeing wins B-52 engine replacement programme order from USAF

The US Air Force has awarded Boeing Defense Systems a task order valued at $2.04bn for the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement ...
Flying

Rolls-Royce Retiring 747 Test Aircraft After 20 Years

Rolls-Royce is retiring its Boeing 747-200 "Flying Test Bed" (FTB), registered N787RR, after 20 years of service since 2005. The uniquely modified aircraft, capable of flying with five engines, was ...
The Aviationist

Hermeus’ Uncrewed Quarterhorse Mk 1 Test Aircraft Flies for the First Time

The high-speed uncrewed test aircraft performed its first flight at Edwards AFB, just a year after the launch of the development. Hermeus, a U.S. company aiming to develop hypersonic aircraft quickly ...
AeroTime

Russia begins flight tests of Su-57 fighter with new fifth-generation engine

Russia has begun flight testing a new engine for its Su-57 fighter, aiming to improve performance, increase production, and ...
autoevolution

Rolls-Royce Starts Testing the Engines That Will Power the U.S. Army's New MV-75 Tiltrotor

Aviation giant Rolls-Royce says it has begun testing the AE 1107F engines that will power the MV-75 tiltrotor that's meant to ...
News.az

Russia’s Su-57 jets test next-generation engine

Specialists from the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and the United Engine Corporation (UEC), both part of Rostec, have ...
AeroTime

Rolls-Royce begins FLRAA engine testing in Indianapolis for US Army MV-75

Testing of the AE 1107F turboshaft engine is underway at Rolls-Royce’s Indianapolis facility, the company’s main US manufacturing and test site. The engine will equip Bell’s MV-75 tiltrotor, selected ...
UPI

NASA runs first engine tests on supersonic X-59 research aircraft

Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...
New Atlas

World's first aerospike aircraft to fly this month after crash setback

The world's first flight test for an aerospike rocket engine ended in disaster, but Polaris Aerospace is back on track, preparing to fly two new prototypes for its MIRA supersonic/hypersonic aerospike ...
autoevolution

NASA's Funky Supersonic Test Aircraft Fires Its Top-Mounted Engine for the First Time

There will soon come a time when NASA will prove that supersonic aircraft flight is possible over populated areas without disturbing people and perhaps even shattering windows. Such a reality will be ...