Before it even got off the ground, the most successful jet engine ever built by Pratt & Whitney ruined Bob Hylander’s weekend. But both he and the company survived, and in time Pratt sold almost ...
In a revival of an old workhorse engine, Pratt & Whitney delivered the first of eight JT8D-219s Thursday, which will replace old Pratt engines in two Air Force surveillance aircraft used in ...
Although focused on developing new jet engines, Pratt & Whitney Co. has found ways to keep aloft its 1960s-vintage workhorse that powered airliners and warplanes. Pratt announced Monday that federal ...
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., May 23 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman has contracted a Pratt & Whitney and Seven Q Seven joint venture to support the U.S. Air Force with new propulsion technologies. Under a $210 ...
The grounding and retirement of older Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines is causing the manufacturer to scale down radically its overhaul operations for the powerplant. In parallel it is winding up its ...
Pratt & Whitney will deliver its first reconfigured JT8D-219 engine, to Northrop Grumman later this month as part of the US Air Force's re-engined E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Radar System (Joint ...
MELBOURNE, Fla., Feb. 9, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) recently completed the JT8D propulsion pod's bleed air system's preliminary design review (PDR) for the E-8C ...
Looking at how commercial aircraft engines have evolved over time.
Indonesian investigators are probing a major engine failure suffered by a Boeing 737-200 freighter operated by PT Jayawijaya Dirgantara in December 2021. The aircraft, PK-JRW (MSN 21822), had just ...
The FAA yesterday ordered operators of certain Pratt&Whitney JT8D engines to check their inventories for compressor disks that the engine maker says may have been damaged during manufacturing, and ...
The U.S. Air Force wants to re-engine its E-8 Joint-STARS aircraft, but officials are rethinking an earlier plan to award the contract to Pratt & Whitney for its JT8D engines. The company had ...
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