Bore and Stroke: 146 mm (5.8 in.) x 152 mm (6 in.) The Wasp Major was Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's last and largest piston engine. Its cylinders were in four rows, arranged in a spiral for better ...

Radial engines weren't new (the Wright R-790 Whirlwind had already seen use), but this was an evolution. Named for the buzzing sound it emitted, the Wasp was a smoothly-operating engine enhanced ...

Pratt & Whitney's Wasp engine changed air travel forever with its air-cooled radial design. During World War II, the company built more than 360,000 power plants for Allied aircraft.

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Pratt and Whitney are flying high as they celebrate their centennial anniversary. For 100 years, Pratt and Whitney – an aircraft engine manufacturer has been ...

Pratt & Whitney has been making aircraft engines since 1925, when the company, which was established as a precision machinery manufacturer in the 1860s, built its first aircraft engine, the Wasp ...

Pratt & Whitney’s recall of several hundred airplane engines continued to pummel stocks across the global engineering sector on Tuesday. At the start of the week engine maker and Pratt & Whitney ...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded RTX subsidiary Pratt & Whitney a potential three-year, $1.5 billion contract to sustain F119 engines for the military branch’s F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft.. RTX ...

Pratt & Whitney’s GTF Advantage engine has obtained FAA type certification for the Airbus A320neo family of aircraft, the manufacturer said Thursday. It’s the latest development for the engine ...

Pratt & Whitney on Wednesday celebrated the production of its 1,000th F-135 military engine as the possibility that competition may emerge from an old rival to take on familiar complaints about… ...

Rotating Detonation Engine rig test. (Image credit: AFRL) Pratt & Whitney is not the only engine manufacturer studying this technology. In 2023, General Electric Aerospace announced a successful ...

Pratt & Whitney's Wasp engine changed air travel forever with its air-cooled radial design. During World War II, the company built more than 360,000 power plants for Allied aircraft.