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...Pratt & Whitney’s latest-generation GTF engine powers the Airbus A220s as well as some A320-neo family jets, although they have had some durability issues in particular in hot and dusty climates....
...A big part of this challenge will fall to the engine makers, notably CFM, Britain’s Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney, part of Raytheon, all of whom are developing or exploring different technologies to decrease...
...The ARJ21’s engines come from Connecticut-based Pratt & Whitney....
...The decision to switch to CFM for the next batch follows months of highly publicised troubles with the Pratt & Whitney engine in India....
...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....
...United’s Pratt & Whitney division saw the quickest pace of sales growth, up 16.3 per cent....
...Mr Eremenko, a Ukrainian-born aeronautics engineer who has also worked at Motorola and the Pentagon’s research agency Darpa, will join United Technologies, owner of the aero-engine maker Pratt & Whitney...
...Problems with a UTC Pratt & Whitney engine have caused delays and cancelled orders for Airbus....
...But its Pratt & Whitney aero-engine subsidiary continues to struggle with its groundbreaking geared turbofan engine and UTC has not yet achieved the aerospace margins promised at the time of the Goodrich...
...UTC’s Pratt & Whitney division has been struggling with severe delays in producing its groundbreaking geared turbofan engine....
...It’s just like an aircraft: the airline chooses whether to have a GE or a Pratt & Whitney engine, it’s not decided by Boeing.” The big challenge now is extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography....
...& Whitney jet engines — an even more critical supplier of components to aircraft companies such as Boeing and Airbus....
...Airbus has lost orders for its popular A320neo single aisle due to problems with a geared engine supplied by UTC’s Pratt & Whitney....
...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....
...Add to that the Pratt & Whitney aero engines division with its first of a kind geared turbofan jet turbine powering Airbus’s A320neo and Bombardier’s C-Series narrow body aircraft....
...Mr Hess’s previous roles include running Pratt & Whitney, United Technologies’ aero engines division, which is a customer for components made by Arconic....
...Bombardier on Tuesday slashed its forecast for deliveries in 2016 of C Series aircraft after “delays” by its engine supplier, Pratt & Whitney....
...United Technologies, owner of engine maker Pratt & Whitney, has publicly admitted that roughly 44 per cent of its suppliers are not delivering on time....
...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...
...Last month, it slashed its forecast for 2016 deliveries of the jet after delays by its engine supplier, Pratt & Whitney....
...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....
...A combined company’s aerospace business would centre on UTC’s Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine business, which is working on a potentially momentous breakthrough with its fuel-saving geared turbofan engine...
...Its Pratt & Whitney aero engine business was in the process of investing billions of dollars in facilities in Connecticut and Florida to manufacture its revolutionary Geared Turbofan jet engine, Mr Hayes...
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