The Air Force currently owns approximately 2,300 TF33 engines of various models that it uses on seven weapons systems, mainly the KC-135, E-3 Advanced Warning and Control Systems (AWACS), B-52, and ...
Pratt & Whitney remains confident that a TF33 upgrade package it is developing would keep the fuel-guzzling Boeing B-52 bomber, an eight-engine goliath, flying into 2040 and beyond. The aircraft was ...
The competition to replace the Boeing B-52 bomber’s outdated Pratt & Whitney TF33-103 engine could get underway in early 2019, the U.S. Air Force says. In response to questions from industry, the ...
The U.S. Air Force says the Boeing B-52H bomber’s 1960s-vintage Pratt & Whitney TF33-103 engine is “not sustainable past 2030” and must be replaced to keep the Stratofortress flying for another two ...