Rolls-Royce

Contract work will be performed at Lockheed Martin’s Marietta, Georgia facility, which the company said will also be one of the locations selected for LMXT tanker production.

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale verifies the experimental flight-development vehicle broke two world speed records for electric airplanes.

Engineers clock Spirit of Innovation research airplane at 345.4 mph, which would smash the previous mark.

Rolls-Royce is celebrating the first flight of its all-electric “Spirit of Innovation” aircraft. It took flight Wednesday, powered by a 400kW electric powertrain with “the most power-dense battery pack ever assembled for an aircraft.” The aircraft is the product of Rolls-Royce’s Accelerating the Electrification of Flight (ACCEL) program, aiming to create the world’s fastest zero-emission […]

Purdue University has been involved in aviation education since the mid-1930s. Recent announcements suggest that this program with such a long history is about to make some more historic strides. With steps under way for a hypersonic test facility and a soon-to-be-installed hypersonic tunnel, Purdue has raised interest from an already deep-pocketed partner—Rolls-Royce—that plans to […]

Rolls-Royce and Tecnam Aircraft have joined efforts to produce an electric version of the P2012 Traveller commuter/utility aircraft, with plans to debut the new version in 2026. The partnership collaborates with Scandinavian airline Widerøe to ready the airplane for commercial service within Widerøe’s current network in Norway. The program builds on the existing agreement between […]

Virgin Galactic Holdings on August 3 announced—in collaboration with Rolls-Royce as the powerplant provider—the creation of a new Mach 3 commercial aircraft. Virgin Galactic Holdings includes a spaceship manufacturing arm. There’s no small amount of irony that Virgin Galactic made its announcement of its futuristic travel machine within hours of sister Virgin empire organization, Virgin […]

Rolls-Royce took a big step forward recently on their path to stay at the forefront of aviation electrification by unveiling their new all-electric, zero-emissions plane at Gloucestershire Airport in the United Kingdom. As part of their ACCEL initiative (Accelerating the Electrification of Flight), work is accelerating as they develop a ground-breaking electrical propulsion system to […]

In a move that leaves no question as to how it feels about the promise of electric propulsion, Rolls-Royce has entered into an agreement to acquire Siemens’ eAircraft business, the company announced during the Paris Air Show 2019. Siemens’ significant work in electric and hybrid-electric propulsion development began to take shape several years ago under […]

Rolls-Royce has begun ground testing a hybrid propulsion system using its M250 gas turbine engine for helicopters that the company says will clear the way for experimental flights on aircraft within two years. The company said it successfully tested the hybrid-electric version of the M250 gas turbine in a ground demonstration setting using three operating […]