Frederick Rentschler would shape the history of aviation when he established the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company and began working on the Wasp engine. His idea for a radial engine would be much ...

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. As the war ...

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 ...

and cut frequency on 21 others because of longer-than-expected waits for engine maintenance to be carried out by Pratt & Whitney. The airline says overall 4,670 flights will be affected ...

But in the case of Pratt & Whitney Canada, it’s basically zero because this new engine won’t be able to power the Russian helicopters it was meant for. Boasting a cruising speed of 250 kph ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sept. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a contract valued up to $1.3 billion to continue work on the F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU), which ...

“For the last decade, the Pratt & Whitney engine has exceeded expectations and powered the aircraft through three major air vehicle and weapons payloads upgrades.” The decision to go with a ...

Pratt & Whitney will be the sole provider of the F135 military jet engine, following a decades-long push by Connecticut’s congressional delegation to secure funding and protect jobs in the state.

He parted ways with the company when it proved reluctant to innovate with its approach to new engine technologies. A radial engine ... collaborated with Pratt & Whitney, then a tool-making ...