The new nacelles will house the Rolls-Royce F130 engines selected with the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program. Boeing released a video to announce the completion of the wind tunnel testing of ...
The new engine pod covers, worth 1.2 million USD, will assist in preventing damage to the B-52 engines. Pilots and maintainers at Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) now have new engine covers ...
The U.S. Air Force has locked in its next move to keep the venerable B-52 bomber flying well into midcentury, awarding Boeing roughly $2 billion to carry the re-engining effort into its next phase.
The U.S. Air Force wants to continue operating the venerable B-52 bomber through 2050. As I have written recently, that would make it the longest continuously operating jet in history. In order to ...