The new contract covers the Post-Critical Design Review phase of the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program, which will ...

Rolls-Royce has begun testing F130 engines for the United States Air Force B-52 fleet at the NASA Stennis Space Center. Rolls-Royce has announced it has launched F130 engine testing at the company’s ...

Rolls-Royce is poised to begin a third phase of ground tests with a pair of dual-podded F130 turbofans for the U.S. Air Force’s B-52J re-engining program and is on track to undertake the critical ...

Of course, the long-range strategic bomber we currently see in the skies above our heads is no longer the same as the one born after the Second World War, at least beyond its outer shell. That’s ...

At NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, Rolls-Royce has begun testing of the F130 jet dual-engine pods that will power the US Air Force's B-52H Stratofortress heavy bomber fleet for the ...

Rolls Royce has started testing their new F130 engines at the NASA Stennis Space Center, according to a press release. The engines will be to replace the Pratt and Whitney TF33 engines currently being ...

INDIANAPOLIS–The new Rolls Royce F130 engine may be built in Indianapolis. The Monday announcement was also that 150 people would be added to help build the engine. The Indianapolis facility is ...

Rolls-Royce plans to build its F130 turbine at a modernised factory in Indiana if selected by the US Air Force to replace the engines on the service’s fleet of Boeing B-52 bombers. The USAF programme ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Rolls-Royce selected Indianapolis as the site of a proposed plant to build the F130 engine for the U.S. Air Force B-52 fleet. The B-52 program would include 650 new engines for ...