Rolls-Royce is retiring its Boeing 747-200 "Flying Test Bed" (FTB), registered N787RR, after 20 years of service and over 2,000 hours of engine testing since 2005. The uniquely modified aircraft, ...

United Aerospace Maintenance Company (UAMCO) Ltd has secured planning permission for a specialised aircraft engine test cell facility in the Aradippou industrial zone, marking a further step in Cyprus ...

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 ...

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Expanding the airport and creating hundreds of jobs- that is coming soon to Panama City Beach. A new 120,000 square-foot engine test facility for the Northwest ...

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 ...

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 ...

GE may operate a GE9X on its Boeing 747-400 flying testbed for a trial period in Dubai in early 2026. Credit: GE Aerospace With ambient temperatures soaring to 45C (113F) and a persistent haze of dust ...

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 ...

An aircraft powered by a turboprop engine took off at Zhuzhou Airport. It flew for 16 minutes and attained an altitude of 300 meters, traveling at a speed of 220 km/h for a distance of 36 km before ...

A B-52 Stratofortress crashed after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base during a radar modernization test mission, killing all eight people aboard.

GE and Lockheed ground tested a new air-breathing hypersonic jet engine capable of powering missiles to speeds well in excess of Mach 5 in a smaller, cheaper, lighter, and more efficient package than ...