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The F-22 Raptor is powered by two RTX Corporation'sPratt & Whitney F119 afterburning turbofan engines, so their maintenance and sustainment are key. Pratt & Whitney has been working on making the F119s smarter with real-time data monitoring, software improvements and potentially additive manufacturing. The improvements being made on the F119 can quickly transfer to other Pratt & Whitney jet engines—not just the F-35’s F135. So let’s take a look at the $1.5 Billion gross in F119 sustainment the United States Air Force (USAF) just bought.

In the past month, there have been two high-profile plane crashes that have stoked a new fear of flying into the minds of millions of people in the public. From the deadly mid-air collision over the Potomac in late January, to the recent flipping over of a Delta CRJ-900 on landing in Toronto, aviation safety is in the spotlight now more than ever. Yet despite this, US President Donald Trump has begun firing probationary employees working at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Blue Origin just revealed the identities of five of the six crewmembers for NS-30, its next suborbital space tourism mission. The company has not yet announced a launch date.

Airlines For America (A4A), a Washington DC-based trade association and lobbying group, has teamed up with several major US carriers as they look to reverse a rule imposed by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) concerning wheelchair damage. In the lawsuit that has been filed against the DOT, A4A and the carriers in question have argued that the existing ruling is 'unlawful.'

Four airlines will operate between the Middle East and Australia this year: Emirates,Etihad Airways,Qatar Airways, and Virgin Australia.The market last had four carriers in 2018, when Qantas pulled out of Dubai and returned to stopping in Singapore en route to/from Europe.

Airbus has confirmed in its full-year results presentation that it is continuing to face logistical and supply chain issues involving Spirit AeroSystems. These are having knock-on effects concerning the production of certain aircraft types, and, most notably, will delay the entry into service of the Airbus A350F. Nonetheless, the European planemaker's outlook on the whole is remaining largely positive.

A flash of X-ray light has revealed the existence of an odd couple of stars, a massive star and a white dwarf, that shouldn't really exist together.

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 67, just a day after it became the highest-risk asteroid since records began.

American Airlines passengers flying from Dallas Fort Worth International to Austin Bergstrom Airport can usually arrive in the Texan capital city less than an hour after taking off, but travelers on Tuesday's flight were not so fortunate. Their journey stretched to more than seven hours after the operating aircraft came into contact with a deicing truck.

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the investigation of dark energy.

Elon Musk and President Trump continue to advance the narrative that NASA astronauts from Boeing's Starliner mission were "abandoned" in space.

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, as early as 2027.

Southwest Airlines said that its Chief Transformation Officer, Ryan Green, will leave the position with effect from April 1, 2025, according to the airline's filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring stars. They pack quite a punch, bombarding Earth with cosmic rays.

Southwest is the USA's second-largest passenger operator. With a fleet of 800+ Boeing 737s, the carrier's statistics show that enplaned passengers totaled 175.5 million in 2024. Traffic rose by 2% compared to its prior high in 2023 (despite the average passenger fare increasing by nearly double that rate). As traffic rose faster than capacity, the load factor increased to over 80%.

It's not the most exciting set, but Lego Marvel Logo & Minifigures expertly achieves what it sets out to do.

After the space community braced for a brutal shake-up at NASA this week, a last-minute decision on Tuesday (Feb. 18) spared over 1,000 agency employees on probationary status from being dismissed.

Eleven airlines plan narrowbody flights from the US to Europe this year. In order of annual departures, they are Aer Lingus, Icelandair, JetBlue, United Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, PLAY, SAS, Iberia, Azores Airlines, La Compagnie, and Delta Air Lines. This article focuses exclusively on United and Delta's single-aisle transatlantic operations. (American last had such flights in 2019 before its Boeing 757s were withdrawn.)

Scientists suggest adding jumping exercises to astronauts' training regimens, to minimize the health effects of long space missions, such as moon and Mars trips.

Arajet, the Dominican Republic-based airline, has scheduled two services from two Dominican cities to San Juan, Puerto Rico, opening up more connections from Punta Cana and Santo Domingo.