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...The ARJ21’s engines come from Connecticut-based Pratt & Whitney....
...The US Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday ordered inspections of the Boeing 777 planes with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines after the incident that resulted in an emergency landing of a United Airlines...
...Corporation....
...Chief executive Gregory Hayes said the maker of Pratt & Whitney engines will benefit from “really solid trends in aerospace across the board” and economic strength in the US....
...Its Pratt & Whitney division provides the engine while the recently formed Collins Aerospace unit brings the cockpit avionics....
...“I have decided to launch a new Falcon project powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada engines… scheduled to enter into service in 2022,” said Dassault chief executive Eric Trappier....
...Abandoning the 5X, an aircraft that should have been in service by now, will leave it with a gap in its range until 2022, when an alternative model with Pratt & Whitney Canada engines will be ready....
...This is partly because of the complexity of its innovative Pratt & Whitney engines, but also down to what industry experts describe as one of the most advanced avionics systems available....
...Fabrice Brégier, Airbus’s chief operating officer and head of its passenger jet business, signalled last week that encouraging progress had been made resolving problems with the groundbreaking Pratt & Whitney...
...It is expected to cut its 2017 guidance for CSeries jet deliveries by about a third, following delivery delays by engine supplier Pratt & Whitney, and analysts will be looking for more details on the company...
...The company that was penalised this week is one of the three businesses that dominate the global supply of aero engines (GE and Pratt & Whitney, both American, are the others)....
...In 2003, Marek Darecki, head of WSK Rzeszów, now owned by US engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney, decided to set up an association of aviation factories in the region and styled it Aviation Valley....
...Pratt & Whitney spent two decades and more than $1bn developing its innovative geared turbofans, one of two engine types available on the A320neo....
...Pratt & Whitney had to decide how to adapt the GTF for the very different demands of powering a business jet, according to Michael Perodeau, head of marketing for Pratt & Whitney Canada, the division working...
...Moreover, Leeham believes Delta may also have won the right to provide lucrative maintenance services on the new geared-turbofan engine made by Pratt & Whitney for the CSeries....
...In the supply chain, Pratt & Whitney (P&W) has developed a new kind of jet engine, a geared turbofan, which will power many of the single-aisle aircraft and their rivals from Canada, Russia, Brazil and Japan...
...The aircraft had accumulated about 48,000 flight hours and was powered by engines made by IAE, a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney of the US, Germany’s MTU and three Japanese companies....
...Airlines can order a version of that jet equipped with the geared turbofan engine made by UTC’s Pratt & Whitney subsidiary. “You just can’t get this deal done,” Mr Hayes told CNBC....
...Embraer is also adopting the same new Pratt & Whitney engines but the MRJ will retain the advantage of a more modern, aerodynamic design....
...GE’s leading competitor in the global turboprop market is Pratt & Whitney, owned by United Technologies, which is based in Canada and so can benefit from that country’s export financing....
...Both the commercial aircraft market — dominated by Airbus and Boeing — and the aero engine market — dominated by GE, United Technologies’ Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce — are far more consolidated than...
...While other UTC businesses — such as Pratt & Whitney, the aerospace engine maker — supply kit to outside companies that fit the equipment into a finished product, Sikorsky is alone in the group as a systems...
...The new chief executive will be Alain Bellemare, former head of United Technologies’ aerospace and propulsion systems division, which includes Pratt & Whitney, the jet engine maker....
...Last month, U.S. aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney announced it intends to spend $1 billion to create 1,500 jobs in Ontario and Quebec....
...The absence of the next generation fighter jet – after the fire in the Pratt & Whitney engine led to a fleetwide grounding last month – was an embarrassment, but officials said that they were “not giving...
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