Rolls-Royce is retiring its Boeing 747-200 "Flying Test Bed" (FTB) after 20 years of service, during which it accumulated over 2,000 hours of testing. The FTB played a crucial role in the development ...

US aircraft engine supplier GE Aerospace has received a new contract from the Defense ...

To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December might have looked like standard hardware. But NASA and GE Aerospace researchers watching the unit fire up ...

A U.S. Sailor observes an F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft engine test on the fantail of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), while underway in ...

Rolls-Royce and the U.S. Air Force validated the F130’s ability to meet performance requirements for the B-52 missions, getting closer to flight testing. Engine maker Rolls-Royce announced on Feb. 24, ...

The Royal Air Force will conduct a high-powered engine test on an A400M transport aircraft at Bournemouth Airport.

Speculation abounds as to the cause of the Air India airplane crash on June 12. One explanation so far is that both engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner failed, a highly unlikely event. A list ...

The EU’s Clean Aviation body has provided more detail on the two new narrowbody engine concepts it plans to fund in its second phase, readying them for service entry around 2035. In December, Clean ...

NASA and GE Aerospace successfully began ground testing a hybrid-electric engine demonstrator designed to reduce fuel consumption by 10% for single-aisle aircraft. This milestone demonstrates the ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1357: Testing Airplane Propellers Episode: 1357 An airplane propeller test facility, twelve years before the Wright Brothers. Today, we test airplane ...

In the aviation industry, innovation is usually the name of the game. Think of the last 86 years and how the jet engine has evolved, allowing folks to traverse to the other side of the planet in hours ...