A Prototype of the Attitude Control Thruster by Agile Space Industries that will be used to land the VIPER rover on the South Pole of the Moon3yr ⋅ Lars0 ⋅ r/engineteststands
Aerojet Rocketdyne RL-10 with a copper alloy 3D-printed thrust chamber assembly6yr ⋅ Pipinpadiloxacopolis ⋅ r/engineteststands
The afterburner of an F-16 Fighting Falcon is run during a hush house engine test at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Dec. 9, 20156yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A successful hot fire test of the Morpheus engine in February 2012.6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The Rutherford engine, a 3D-printed, battery powered rocket engine, undergoing testing.6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
I was told you guys might like this. Technically not a engine stand, as that's inside the vacuum chamber, but a very high-tech engine-reliability-sensor-stand (fancy for webcam + LEGO).5yr ⋅ Jirokoh ⋅ r/engineteststands
NASA successfully hot-fire tests a 3-D printed copper combustion chamber liner with an E-Beam Free Form Fabrication manufactured nickel-alloy jacket.5yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
LauncherSpace's sub-scale engine on their test stand, as photographed by u/johnkphotos6yr ⋅ Thecactusslayer ⋅ r/engineteststands
A Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) undergoing a full power level 290.04 second test firing at the National Space Technology Laboratories (currently called the Stennis Space Center) in Mississippi6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Not a test, but a purge. A J58 burning off the last of the NASA's triethylborane (TEB) stockpile at the end of the SR-71 program. TEB was used ignite the JP-7 fuel on startup and to light the afterburners during flight. SpaceX also uses TEA-TEB to ignite their engines.8yr ⋅ abledanger ⋅ r/engineteststands
The RL10 rocket engine tested with 3D printed copper thrust chamber6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A Pratt & Whitney J58 running hot on the test stand at Edwards AFB8yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A TF33 Pratt and Whitney engine undergoes testing at Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee to verify and validate newly redesigned components of the engine5yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
India’s first indigenously designed and developed High Thrust cryogenic rocket engine generating a nominal thrust of 19 tonnes was successfully endurance hot tested for a duration of 800 seconds on July 16, 2015 at ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendragiri.6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
BE-3 Engine (LOX/LH2) Static Fire Test by Blue Origin - NASA's Stennis Space Center (2012)6yr ⋅ HEYMARVIN ⋅ r/engineteststands
An RS-25 engine is delivered by flatbed truck to a test stand at Stennis.6yr ⋅ HEYMARVIN ⋅ r/engineteststands
Smoke and flames belch from the huge S-1C test stand as the first stage booster of the Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle is static fired at the NASA Mississippi Test Facility (MTF), currently called Stennis Space Center. 1967.6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Study of effect of twin-jet exhausts inclined toward the ground in simulation of take-off conditions, Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, 1949 [1229 x 1536]6yr ⋅ Punani_Punisher ⋅ r/engineteststands
GE9X Engine on the test stand at the test facility in Peebles, Ohio7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
CE20 Engine Interfaced with the High Altitude Test (HAT) facility established at IPRC, Mahendragiri6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
An Ariane 5 Solid Rocket Booster fired up at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The J–1 rocket stand built to study heat transfer between a nuclear engine’s hot exhaust gases and its nozzle.6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The GE Turbulence Control Structure, made up of 300 flat aluminum honeycombs and perforated stainless steel plates. It spans 32 feet in diameter, and weighs 30,000 pounds.8yr ⋅ piponwa ⋅ r/engineteststands
Hot-fire test of a 3-D printed rocket engine nozzle using a new process called Laser Wire Direct Closeout6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A 750,000 pound motor is test-fired at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for the U.S. Air Force Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) project [3000 x 2207]6yr ⋅ Punani_Punisher ⋅ r/engineteststands
A remote camera captures a close-up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. 1981.6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Minuteman IA’s Hercules M57 3rd stage static firing test at Hill AFB, 19607yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The Hybrid-Electric Integrated Systems Testbed performs a full-power ground test at 224 kW of Leading-Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology to test lift at low speeds.6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A launch abort engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne is hot-fired during tests in the Mojave Desert in California. October 20th, 2016.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A test stand of the Rolls-Royce Outdoor Jet Engine Test Facility at NASA John C. Stennis Space Center7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The Graflight engine, developed by Engineered Propulsion Systems, on the test stand6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The Orion jettison motor fires up for 1.5 seconds and generates 40,000 pounds of thrust to demonstrate its capabilities during a test at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility in Sacramento, California.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Dummy pilot and seat soar, as engineers test a catapult escape system in Arizona, March 1963.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A close-up image of the single H-1 engine that was test-fired at Canoga Park, California. April 1st, 1964.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Egyptian Air Force pilots stand by an F-16CM Fighting Falcon engine in full afterburner at Shaw Air Force Base7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A test running in Cell 2 of The National Gas Turbine Establishment, known simply as Pyestock6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A 100-pound liquid oxygen/liquid methane engine fires up after NASA Glenn’s Altitude Combustion Stand (ACS) was reactivated7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The small jets designed to steer Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in orbit fired in a vacuum chamber7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Space Launch System Qualification Motor 2 test or, QM-2, with HiDyRS-X camera.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Inside the 8’ x 6’ wind tunnel at NASA Glenn, engineers test a fan and inlet design, commonly called a propulsor, which could use four to eight percent less fuel than today’s advanced aircraft.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Must. Go. Faster. F/A-18 engine being tested on the fantail of USS George Washington, 2003 (CVN-73)[2100 x 1500] (x-post warshipporn)7yr ⋅ Punani_Punisher ⋅ r/engineteststands
Kingston University's Acrylic Liquid Rocket Engine. Uses swirl injection to keep the chamber walls cool.7yr ⋅ Lars0 ⋅ r/engineteststands
Pratt & Whitney Advanced Ducted Propulsor (ADP) engine test in a 40x80ft wind tunnel7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) project completes the fourth hot-fire acceptance test on a 1 Newton thruster at Aeroject Rocketdyne’s Facility in Redmond, Washington.6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A 5-percent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) is ignited at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.8yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A 5-percent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) is ignited for five seconds to measure the effects acoustic noise and pressure have on the vehicle at liftoff.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
An F100-PW-100 engine runs at full afterburner in the 33rd Maintenance Squadron's test cell7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The NERVA XE nuclear rocket engine being transported to Test Stand No. 1 at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station in Jackass Flats, Nevada7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Firefly Alpha aerospike engine on June 10, 2016. The white mounting ring will hold 12 of these motors on the first stage.8yr ⋅ abledanger ⋅ r/engineteststands
A GEnx engine sits on a test stand at GE Aviation’s Peebles Test Center8yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The 221-foot-tall Test Stand 4693, the largest of two new Space Launch System test stands at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
F-22 maintenance personnel from the active duty 3rd Wing and the Reserve 477th Fighter Group perform an engine test at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The Orion Launch Abort System motor roars to life at Promontory, Utah, sending up four pillars of flame in a five-second burst that produced a half-million pounds of thrust.9yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
NASA Tests Methane-Powered Engine Components for Next Generation Landers7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A Pratt & Whitney F135 flight test engine in full afterburner running at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, Texas.9yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Test firing of M-35, the second motor of the Second Epsilon Launch Vehicle6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A Hall thruster set for testing in a Glenn Research Center vacuum chamber7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Northrop P-61 Black Widow being used as a test stand for a Ramjet engine used to propel missiles7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Lycoming O-290 on the stand, Sacramento city college aeronautics7yr ⋅ crowman5grand ⋅ r/engineteststands
An RD-180 on the indoor test stand of the altitude testing chamber at the headquarters of the engine maker Energomash, located in the town of Khimki, Russia8yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The vertical test stand for the J-2 engine at Rocketdyne's Propulsion Field Laboratory, in the Santa Susana Mountains, near Canoga Park, California. 1963.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
(Sad post) The aftermath of the Scaled Composites Test stand (For VG SS2) after an explosion that took the lives of three test engineers in 20078yr ⋅ Lars0 ⋅ r/engineteststands
North American JB-45A being used as a testbed for a Westinghouse J34 turbojet7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A GE9X jet engine gets hoisted onto the test stand at Peebles, Ohio8yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The 150,000-lb thrust engine for the Thor IRBM is subjected to a hot firing at Test Stand 1 on Rocketdyne Neosho's test facilities. c.1957.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The Stennis Space Center B-1/B-2 Test Stand holding space shuttle components (1987)8yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
X-35 STOVL propulsion system testing at Pratt & Whitney facilities in West Palm Beach, Florida7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne SJX61-2 Mach 5 ground test under way at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center’s 8 ft high-temperature tunnel7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The 2-percent scale models of the SLS boosters and core stage engines are ignited for a 100 millisecond, hot-fire test.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Test firing of all five F-1 engines for the Saturn V S-IC test stage at the Marshall Space Flight Center.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The Pratt & Whitney F119 gas turbine turbofan engine with afterburner, used by the F/A-22 Raptor fighter jets, showing the 2 extreme vectoring cases, a special technique, called the Thrust Vector Control.9yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A Saturn V F-1 engine test firing at Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Test Stand 1-A8yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
F-35C Lightning II test aircraft CF-1 performs an engine thrust measurement survey on afterburner at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.8yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
A dramatic view of the first test firing of all five F-1 engines for the Saturn V S-IC stage at the Marshall Space Flight Center. April 16th, 1965.7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Shock diamonds in a supersonic XCOR Liquid Oxygen-Methane engine test9yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
NASA Glenn engineer Dr. Peter Peterson prepares a high-power Hall thruster for ground testing in a vacuum chamber that simulates the environment in space7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Jet Exit Rig Balance: A flow-through force balance used to measure aerodynamic or propulsive forces/moments at NASA's Glenn Research Center.6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
J85 mounted on a test stand with a device that uses a thermographic phosphor technique to measure the surface temperature of blades and vanes8yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
The RS-25 engine fires up for a 535-second test Aug. 27, 2015 at NASA's Stennis Space Center7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
Electric Motor Test Stand To Help With Future X-Plane Development7yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/engineteststands
