Watch panelists Chris Flynn, vice president of Military Development and GATORWORKS at Pratt & Whitney; John J. Kusnierek, senior vice president of LibertyWorks research and technology at Rolls-Royce North America; Darin L. DiTommaso, vice president of military engineering at GE Aviation; and moderator Michael R. Gregg, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate, take part in the “Mission Domain Live Engagement—Propulsion” session from AFA’s 2021 virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium.
A new think tank analysis finds a hypothetical blended-wing body tanker could offer twice as much refueling performance as the KC-46A Pegasus and recommends the Air Force buy scores of them, as the service prepares to evaluate a BWB demonstrator next year and must juggle its future tanker plans with…