The new upgrade package—on top of an existing $2.6 billion contract with UK engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce—will keep the B-52 bombers flying indefinitely into the future.

Rolls-Royce intends by 2028 to be running two versions of its UltraFan demonstrator engine – one for widebodies and the other for single-aisles – with flight tests to follow by the end of the decade.

The Air Force now wants to replace them with the Rolls-Royce F130 engine. Boeing, the Air Force, and Rolls-Royce had spent ...

Rolls-Royce intends to begin further ground runs of its original UltraFan demonstrator early next year as it looks to build on initial test activity that concluded in 2023. In parallel, it has started ...

Following a short but fierce battle with competitor Sikorsky, aircraft maker Bell Textron won back in 2022 the U.S. Army contract to design the replacement for the aging UH-60 Black Hawk. The result ...

Rolls-Royce has begun testing the AE 1107F engine, the propulsion system selected to equip the prototypes of the long-range ...

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 ...

Pictured is a Bell photo of the company’s V-280 Valor, the basis for the Army’s future MV-75.Rolls-Royce‘s testing of the AE 1107F engine for the U.S. Army MV-75 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft ...

Rolls-Royce Group PLC says a Trent 1000 engine built for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner failed during testing and that a probe has begun into the incident. Rolls-Royce doesn't anticipate that the failure ...

A new Rolls-Royce facility which will develop jet engine technologies set to transform flight, reduce emissions and set new benchmarks for efficiency has opened in Bristol, UK. The composite ...

Rolls-Royce has successfully tested the world’s first high-speed marine engine powered exclusively by methanol on its test bench in Friedrichshafen. Together with their partners in the meOHmare ...