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Everyday Test Flying

The stereotypical image of a test pilot is a Yeageresque individual in a flight suit with a test card strapped to one knee, ...
China has pushed a new piece of aviation hardware through one of the harshest trials in the business, proving that its first ...
A 1,200-kilowatt-class turboprop engine developed in China has successfully completed its ignition test conducted ...
GE and Lockheed ground tested a new air-breathing hypersonic jet engine capable of powering missiles to speeds well in excess ...
Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...
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 ...
Speculation abounds as to the cause of the Air India airplane crash on June 12. One explanation so far is that both engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner failed, a highly unlikely event. A list ...
HAL initiated the engine ground testing of its CATS Warrior loyal wingman unmanned platform on 11 January 2025. (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has conducted the ...
A turbofan engine, on the other hand, is designed to move huge amounts of air to propel an aircraft forward. At lower subsonic speeds, it does this quite well. Faster than that, aerodynamic drag ...
The high-speed uncrewed test aircraft performed its first flight at Edwards AFB, just a year after the launch of the development. Hermeus, a U.S. company aiming to develop hypersonic aircraft quickly ...