The 14-hour, mid-October Qantas flight from Sydney to Los Angeles probably went as most do: peanuts, in-flight viewings of the latest Spider-Man, a restless toddler, some overtippling business ...

Rolls-Royce celebrates a successful tenth flight of the Pearl 10X engine onboard the Boeing 747 testbed aircraft. Continuous testing and development process includes high altitude testing reaching ...

Witness the incredible manufacturing process behind the powerful Rolls Royce engines that power the iconic Boeing 747 jumbo ...

As part of the test campaign, the engines are fitted to a Boeing 747-200, which serves as Rolls-Royce’s flying test bed (FTB). The Tucson, Arizona-based FTB is capable of having a variety of eng ...

Celebrating the 9,000th engine produced at its Dahlewitz site, Rolls-Royce continued to progress on its newest engine model, ...

A flight test carried out from Tucson recently was another small step toward a future where airliners are powered with cleaner fuel made from things like animal fat and agricultural waste.

LAS VEGAS—The first Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X flight-test engine is being installed on the company’s Boeing 747-200 flying testbed at Waco, Texas, as part of preparations for an airborne ...

The engine was fitted to the Rolls-Royce Boeing 747 Flying Test Bed for flights up to 40,000 feet and engine relights under various conditions. The ALECSys (Advanced Low Emissions Combustion ...

Mounted on a specially designed test pylon that projected forward from the inboard right wing of Rolls-Royce’s Boeing 747-200 flying testbed, the engine was flown on more than 25 missions over a ...

The engine was not flown on the Dassault aircraft it was born to power (the plane itself won't be ready to take to the sky before 2025), but on a Boeing 747 Rolls-Royce is using as a testbed.

Like the other engines in the Trent family, the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 is a high-bypass turbofan. Originally intended for use on a possible Boeing 747 variant, but repurposed after the project was ...

At this point, Rolls-Royce Ltd. has a few key engines under its belt that power ... powering the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and some Boeing 747 Transport units as well. Naturally, the RB211 later ...