This engine was Pratt & Whitney’s new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as ... of cooling fin surface. Since radial air-cooled engines began to supplant other types, their power has been ...

RTX Corp. (NYSE:RTX) +3.2% pre-market Tuesday after saying its Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has developed a new additive manufacturing repair process for critical geared turbofan engine components ...

The Rotating Detonation Engine being developed by Pratt & Whitney has no moving parts, which reduces complexity and costs, and could help enable high-speed, long-range flight with increased ...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has completed a series of tests on its rotating detonation engine (RDE) work with the RTX ...

Pratt & Whitney is planning further development of rotating detonation engine (RDE) technology following “positive test results” from a series of ground tests. The work, which was completed ...

Another incident involving a Boeing plane running Pratt & Whitney engines also dropped engine parts after a midair explosion over the Netherlands on the very same day. The Dutch incident involved ...

(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens) The Pratt & Whitney F-119-PW-100 is a low bypass ratio afterburning turbofan which powers the F-22 Raptor. The engine is considered the first ...

the latter necessitated by its huge Pratt & Whitney R-4360 ‘Wasp Major’ engine, a 28-cylinder air-cooled radial that produced a staggering 3,500 hp.” The Type 400 was envisioned to provide ...

During the five-day voyage, the Vega was strapped in one piece to the Lurline’s aft tennis court and the Pratt & Whitney Wasp ...

Along the massive wings were eight Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major 28-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines punching 3,000 hp (2,200 kW) each to turn the four-bladed Hamilton Standard ...

U.S. officials wanted the B-29’s replacement to run with the new Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial engine. At the time, this was the largest-displacement aircraft piston engine to ever ...