As part of a Proof of Concept, for the first time, the U.S. Air Force turned a C-5M Super Galaxy into an aerial refueler for a KC-10 tanker. On Dec. 12, 2023, a C-5M Super Galaxy and a KC-10 Extender ...
The US Air Force (USAF) has successfully tested a new aerial refuelling technique known as reverse flow, in which a transport aircraft transfers jet fuel to a tanker. The demonstration, which took ...
It wasn’t that long ago a 2.7L V-6 with a compacted-graphite-iron (CGI) block, twin turbos, reverse-flow cooling, split-mains, variable-displacement oil pump, deep-sump oil pan and direct-injection ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pratt & Whitney makes the engines that power planes through turbulence. Such engineering prowess is little help ...