B-52 Stratofortress

[tahsin]

Ignoring tech specifics for a while, it allows Pentagon to claim balance as they force London to back of a little. Doesn't  look likely it will work but anyhow...

[jcf]

Ignoring tech specifics for a while, it allows Pentagon to claim balance as they force London to back of a little. Doesn't  look likely it will work but anyhow...

" ... force London to back of (sic) a little."

Back off from what? 

[scooter]

From Air Force Mag a couple of days ago: Rolls-Royce Digitally Modeled Wing and Pylon With Engine to Win B-52 Contract

To win the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program, Rolls-Royce digitally "built" the bomber's wing with the company's F130 engines installed to demonstrate its advantages, Rolls-Royce North America President and CEO Tom Bell said in an online seminar.

"We digitally integrated that engine into the pod, into the pylon, into the wing, and dynamically modeled the entire system of operation to model for the customer exactly how efficient that product would be on that wing," which was "designed ... in the 1950s, early 60s," Bell said in a streaming discussion with Defense One. He also revealed that Rolls' proposal calls for modifying the wing "as little as possible" in order to reduce risk.

With the digital model, "We were able to demonstrate for the Air Force ... how our engine, and this approach, would lower their integration risk, so as to integrate this engine efficiently, affordably, and on schedule," Bell said. The digital model also demonstrated how maintenance could be accomplished more easily, he said.

The Air Force made digital presentations a requirement of its B-52 CERP proposals, insisting that, for the first time, it would accept no paper and that competitors would have to battle each other in a virtual environment that was transparent to all. The approach—which the Air Force dubbed an "eSeries" program to highlight its digital nature—was taken in part to ward off program-delaying protests. To date, neither of the competitors, GE Aviation nor Pratt & Whitney, have announced they will protest the Air Force's selection of Rolls-Royce, although they still have time in which to make that determination.   

[tahsin]

In a time whe  people are "debating" whether it was a Chinese submarine that damaged the American one, the need to compensate Brexit can be real irritating. My "best wishes" to those who trail people forum to forum to silence...