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, ...

RTX has reached a key milestone in its hybrid-electric propulsion project, successfully running its ...

Engineers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have just carried out a series of ...

Work on a Safran Aircraft Engines-led project that will culminate in flight tests of an open-fan engine aboard an Airbus A380 in 2029 has officially kicked off.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Offering an insider’s view of the business of flight. A Boeing 777X flight test aircraft is parked at a gate at the Everett ...

Boeing had a busy 2025 with the certification processes for its long-delayed 777X program. Since flight testing resumed in January last year following a five-month grounding, Boeing has utilized all ...

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 ...

Rolls-Royce is evaluating a single-aisle version of the UltraFan geared engine architecture as part of Clean Aviation’s Heaven research initiative. Credit: Rolls-Royce While Airbus and Boeing converge ...

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...

United Aircraft has carried out water-ingestion tests on its initial import-substituted Yakovlev SJ-100, equipped with Aviadvigatel PD-8 powerplants. The aircraft, number 97023, carried out the runway ...

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 ...