Aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is retiring a Boeing 747-200 test aircraft after 20 years in service. The company said the aircraft, known as the “Flying Test Bed” (FTB) and registered as ...

Inside Duncan Aviation, a control room has all the makings of a cockpit, with gauges measuring speed and temperature. But instead of being attached to a plane, the control room is linked to a single ...

GE Aerospace and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions have begun altitude testing for their new low-cost GEK800 turbofan ...

The Boeing 747 is quite possibly the most iconic airplane in aviation history. Everyone knows what the 747 is, even if they don’t care about planes. The ‘Queen of the Skies’ might have ended ...

The two announcements highlight RTX’s parallel work on both air-breathing and solid rocket propulsion technologies through ...

Southwest Research Institute produced a batch of blended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through a refinery process that ...

This measured data on long life HTPEM fuel cells will help quantify maintenance savings and encourage adoption of the ...

The Solid Fuel Ramjet (SFRJ) and the Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet (DMRJ) are seeing rapid success as the U.S. hikes spending and development of hypersonic ...

Engine manufacturer GE Aviation plans to buy 500,000 gal. of biofuel annually for engine testing, beginning in 2016. The company uses more than 10 million gal. of jet fuel a year at its engine test ...

What has zero moving parts, yet can blast an aerial vehicle to velocities beyond Mach 5? The answer is the recently flight-tested Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) powered by a ...