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The B-52 Bomber Is Getting a Rolls Royce Engine
Key Points: The US Air Force is upgrading its B-52H Stratofortress fleet through the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP), creating the B-52J variant intended to serve into the 2050s. -This ...
Pratt & Whitney remains confident that a TF33 upgrade package it is developing would keep the fuel-guzzling Boeing B-52 bomber, an eight-engine goliath, flying into 2040 and beyond. The aircraft was ...
Senior Airman Josh Serafin monitors the ignition of B-52H Stratofortress engines at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. Each B-52 uses eight TF33 engines to fly. (Senior Airman J.T. Armstrong/U.S. Air Force) ...
Engine maker Pratt & Whitney (P&W) has won a Pentagon contract valued up to $870 million for sustainment of TF33 engines, which power Boeing B-52H heavy bombers and Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early ...
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