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NASA recently ran the first-ever test of a new jet engine technology that could radically increase fuel efficiency
A series of C-17 flight tests have helped quantify the drag reduction and corresponding fuel savings afforded by temporary aerodynamic finlets and microvanes
The cloud, remote data storage, greater automation and advanced sensors are part of the new concept for data acquisition at the German Aerospace Center’s rocket engine test stands
Before the first engineering manufacturing and development Sikorsky HH-60W helicopter takes to the air in 2018, infrastructure and test facility developments on the ground are being completed
Embraer is making rapid progress through the test campaign for its advanced KC-390 multirole airlifter as it heads toward IOC with the Brazilian Air Force later this year
The latest in Bombardier’s line of Global business aircraft, the Global 7000 achieved first flight in November 2016. Steve Patrick, director, flight test operations and safety, Global 7000 Flight Test Team, discusses the type’s busy, five-aircraft flight test program
The UK’s National Physical Laboratory has developed the first high temperature solid particle erosion test to incorporate metrology
Embraer has passed through the 25% point in its 2,000-hour E2 trials campaign – its nine-prototype effort should see the next-generation airliner variants enter service in 2018, 2019 and 2020
Will NASA’s X-57 electric research airplane go down in history as the aircraft that helped define a new, greener, cleaner, electric age of aviation?