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Boeing to Test More Powerful GE Engine on CH-47, as House Appropriators Advise Restoring Block II Funding

Frank Wolfe

Monday, May 20th, 2019

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Boeing to Test More Powerful GE Engine on CH-47, as House Appropriators Advise Restoring Block II Funding

A Boeing CH-47F (Photo: U.S. Army)

RIDLEY PARK, Pa.--Boeing [BA] is undertaking a "beyond Block II" effort for its CH-47F Chinooks, including a testing program this year of two General Electric [GE] 7,500 horsepower T408 engines--2,500 horsepower more than the current Honeywell [HON] T55 engines. The GE-Boeing-Army engine effort is proceeding under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) that began in 2016. "We're pretty far along in the modifications of the aircraft," said Chuck Dabundo, the Boeing H-47 program manager, at the company's pre-Paris Air Show media…

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