WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin this week revealed its Skunk Works proposal for a next-generation U-2 spy plane, a tactical reconnaissance aircraft called "TR-X." As the Air Force looks to retire ...

GE has been awarded a maximum $422,810,759 firm-fixed price, requirements-type contract for supplies related to the F-series engines — the F101, F110 and F118 engines, the Department of Defense ...

The so-called UQ-2 or RQ-X, as the design is known within the company, would still carry many of the same sensors as the U-2, utilize the same F118 engine and fly at 70,000 feet, but it would ...

But unlike a glider, the U-2 was built around an engine, specifically the General Electric F118 turbofan (and formerly the Pratt & Whitney J57, and later J75, engines). The F118 produces about ...

The B-21 moves its engines closer to the wing root, where they occupy the juncture between wing and fuselage, whereas the B-2’s twin pairs of General Electric F118-GE-100 engines are distinctly ...

The advanced research and development arm of Lockheed is essentially pursuing an improved version of the U-2, which is powered by the same General Electric F118 engine and optimised to fly at 70 ...

Thus, the TR-X combines the U-2's high-flying abilities-the new aircraft would use the same GE F118 engine as the U-2, allowing it to fly at 70,000 feet-with the unmanned advantages of the Global Hawk ...