SINGAPORE, Feb. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SINGAPORE AIR SHOW -- Pratt & Whitney's JT8D engine, an icon of aviation history, celebrates 50 years of dependable service this month, making it one of the ...

In a revival of an old workhorse engine, Pratt & Whitney delivered the first of eight JT8D-219s Thursday, which will replace old Pratt engines in two Air Force surveillance aircraft used in ...

Although focused on developing new jet engines, Pratt & Whitney Co. has found ways to keep aloft its 1960s-vintage workhorse that powered airliners and warplanes. Pratt announced Monday that federal ...

Before it even got off the ground, the most successful jet engine ever built by Pratt & Whitney ruined Bob Hylander’s weekend. But both he and the company survived, and in time Pratt sold almost ...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., May 23 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman has contracted a Pratt & Whitney and Seven Q Seven joint venture to support the U.S. Air Force with new propulsion technologies. Under a $210 ...

Pratt & Whitney will deliver its first reconfigured JT8D-219 engine, to Northrop Grumman later this month as part of the US Air Force's re-engined E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Radar System (Joint ...

The grounding and retirement of older Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines is causing the manufacturer to scale down radically its overhaul operations for the powerplant. In parallel it is winding up its ...

Indonesian investigators are probing a major engine failure suffered by a Boeing 737-200 freighter operated by PT Jayawijaya Dirgantara in December 2021. The aircraft, PK-JRW (MSN 21822), had just ...

The U.S. Air Force wants to re-engine its E-8 Joint-STARS aircraft, but officials are rethinking an earlier plan to award the contract to Pratt & Whitney for its JT8D engines. The company had ...

The Northwest Airlines jet that crashed Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after what may have been an engine failure had one of its two engines stop in midflight in 1985 after it took off from ...

In the late ‘70s, my agency pal and I started making bi-weekly flights from Calgary to Edmonton’s ITV studios to record TV spots for Sportchek, a provincial sporting goods retailer with its greatest ...

Pratt & Whitney will deliver its first reconfigured JT8D-219 engine, to Northrop Grumman later this month as part of the US Air Force's re-engined E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Radar System (Joint ...