Morning Overview on MSN

Northrop’s YFQ-48A Talon Blue completes first engine run test

Northrop Grumman’s autonomous combat drone, the YFQ-48A Talon Blue, has completed its first engine run campaign, clearing a ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

X-59 experimental aircraft fires up its engine for first time on its way to takeoff

NASA's Quesst mission marked a major milestone with the start of tests on the engine that will power the quiet supersonic ...
UPI

NASA runs first engine tests on supersonic X-59 research aircraft

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 ...
Flightglobal

NASA begins X-59 engine runs and now aims for 2025 first flight

The NASA team developing the X-59 supersonic demonstrator jet have fired up the aircraft’s GE Aviation F414-GE-100 powerplant for the first time, having started engine-run tests on 30 October. The ...
autoevolution

USAF Spending $1.5 Billion to Keep F-22 Raptor Engines Running, Upgrades on the Way

In the world of military airplanes it is very fashionable to be old. The most widespread fighter planes and bombers are decades-old, and the world understands how keeping them operational for a while ...