We had an opportunity to have a sidebar with Yugo Fukuhara, Director, Marketing at Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation (MAC) at Pratt & Whitney’s Media Day. In explaining the fabrication delay, Mr Fukuhara explained that there are no serious problems. The main…
Following an in-depth review of the MRJ program, Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation (MITAC) announced the following program schedule update: MRJ first flight is scheduled for JFY* 3Q 2013, in order to: (i) Confirm respective fabrication processes. (ii) Provide sufficient time for…
Pratt & Whitney has completed its first round of flight tests for the PW1524G engine for the Bombardier CSeries, accumulating 115 hours of flight time from 25 flights. As Bob Saia indicated to Addison Schonland in our recent podcast, the…
On a visit to P&W in Hartford on September 8 2011, we noticed something compared to previous visits. Everyone has a bounce in their step. This company has its mojo back. The GTF is working as well as, maybe better,…
The battle for aircraft engines in the narrow-body market has increased dramatically with the introduction of the PW1000G geared turbofan, which has emerged as a strong competitor to the CFM International LEAP engine that will replace its existing market share…
Today P&W provided an update on its GTF (PurePower) program. VP Bob Saia provided this presentation. The charts below come from this presentation. Views: 43