An Airbus A380 flew for nearly 300 hours with a 4-foot-long tool left inside one of its engines
An engineer had left the tool in the engine, thinking someone else would need to use it again later on, a safety report said.
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Revolutionary jet engine shows promise after first hot-fire test
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NASA fires up its X-59 quiet supersonic jet engine for the first time
But NASA wants to show that faster-than-sound travel is possible without the annoyance of the boom, which is where its X-59 ...
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NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet test fires engine for 1st time
Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting test runs ...
NASA runs first engine tests on supersonic X-59 research aircraft
NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the ...
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NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Fires Up Engine For The First Time Ahead Of First Flight
X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved ...
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Making jet engines fit for the hydrogen age
Europe is preparing for climate-neutral flight powered by sustainably produced hydrogen. Last year, the EU launched a project ...
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NASA's X-59 supersonic jet nears first flight, passes engine tests
NASA 's revolutionary X-59 jet, or the Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, has passed its first engine tests. The ...
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Researchers are making jet engines fit for the hydrogen age
Hydrogen-powered planes are set to take wing around the world in the future. To make this possible, engineers have to develop the jet engines that will power them. Experiments by researchers are now ...