{"id":12264,"date":"2023-09-07T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T03:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=12264"},"modified":"2023-09-07T22:49:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T03:49:50","slug":"rolls-royce-to-complete-initial-f130-engine-testing-for-b-52j-by-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=12264","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce to complete initial F130 engine testing for B-52J by year end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolls-Royce <strong>(OTC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zacks.com\/stock\/quote\/RYCEY?q=RYCEY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RYCEY<\/a>)<\/strong> today announced that it is on track to complete initial F130 engine testing for the United States Air Force B-52J Stratofortress by the end of the year. Continued <a class=\"arrow-hide\" title=\"Opens in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tEcpbIa0kl0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapid Twin Pod Tests<\/a> at NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi have accomplished all of Rolls-Royce\u2019s initial goals and allowed for the gathering of unprecedented amounts of data early in the program, further de-risking the integration of the F130 engine onto the B-52J.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, Rolls-Royce F130 engines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolls-royce.com\/media\/press-releases\/2021\/24-09-2021-rr-north-america-selected-to-power-the-b-52-commercial-engine-replacement-program.aspx\">were selected<\/a>\u00a0by the Air Force to replace the existing powerplants in the B-52 fleet, with over 600 new engine deliveries expected. The new engines will extend the life of the B-52 aircraft for 30 years and are so durable they are expected to remain on wing for the remainder of the aircraft life.<\/p>\n<p>F130 engines will be manufactured, assembled and tested at Rolls-Royce facilities in Indianapolis, the company\u2019s largest production facility in the U.S. The F130 is derived from the Rolls-Royce BR family of commercial engines, with over 30 million hours of operation and a high reliability rate. It\u2019s a proven, dependable engine with a fuel-efficient design.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hola-icon-globe\" style=\"top: 62px; left: 983px;\" src=\"safari-extension:\/\/5BF5F2BF-8D1E-4E4F-8B22-1548682ABB74\/logoCircleBlack.svg\" alt=\"Hola\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolls-Royce (OTC: RYCEY) today announced that it is on track to complete initial F130 engine testing for the United States Air Force B-52J Stratofortress by the end of the year. Continued Rapid Twin Pod Tests at NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi have accomplished all of Rolls-Royce\u2019s initial goals and allowed for the gathering of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,9316,4813,89,5804,799,5637,13618,1836,5992,5670,2203,4957,5676,13831,10674,5446,10169,13469,10176,1397,10195],"tags":[7816,15754,167,539,464,6741,6815,160,15756,988,2135,1563,4512,655,8088,3796,2086,4335,2956,2493,1350,4681,15759,595,2406,335,828,5305,4253,7212,15755,4414,2665,1483,1001,1757,9095,1883,5212,5520,1681,3599,3604,1898,1843,3811,14752,4201,1567,889,3084,709,412,14908,7583,4680,532,15758,515,2633,2169,5516,8750,2504,120,2505,15753,2422,9008,937,3076,3222,15757,10245,7135,6377,1691,3123,631,444,6297,2684,839],"class_list":["post-12264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-air-force-news","category-airplane-news","category-aviation-news","category-avionics","category-boeing-news","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-defense-news","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-manufacturing-assembly-news","category-military","category-military-news","category-news","category-pilot","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-transport","tag-7816","tag-adr","tag-aerospace","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-announced","tag-assembled","tag-aviation","tag-b-52j","tag-business","tag-center","tag-commercial","tag-communications","tag-company","tag-complete","tag-customers","tag-data","tag-delivered","tag-deliveries","tag-demand","tag-design","tag-develop","tag-econo","tag-economy","tag-efficient","tag-engine","tag-engines","tag-existing","tag-expected","tag-extend","tag-f130","tag-facilities","tag-facility","tag-fleet","tag-force","tag-fuel","tag-goals","tag-growth","tag-indiana","tag-indianapolis","tag-industry","tag-initial","tag-integration","tag-jets","tag-largest","tag-life","tag-lse","tag-manufactured","tag-market","tag-military","tag-mississippi","tag-nasa","tag-news","tag-otc","tag-plants","tag-pod","tag-power","tag-powerplants","tag-production","tag-products","tag-program","tag-rapid","tag-replace","tag-rolls","tag-rolls-royce","tag-royce","tag-rr","tag-rycey","tag-selected","tag-space","tag-states","tag-stennis","tag-stratofortress","tag-tested","tag-testing","tag-tests","tag-transport","tag-twin","tag-u-s","tag-united","tag-usaf","tag-wing","tag-worldwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12266,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions\/12266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}