Braathens has placed an order for 10 Bombardier CSeries aircraft, with 10 options for use by its subsidiary Malmö Aviation based at Stockholm’s downtown Bromma Airport. Their order includes both models of the CSeries, 5 CS100 models with 110 seats…
A patent infringement lawsuit by Rolls Royce against Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies regarding fan blade design for the GP7200 engine used on the Airbus A380 and the forthcoming PW GTF series of engines was decided in…
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: 42
In the lawsuit by Rolls-Royce against Pratt & Whitney for alleged patent infringement over the fan blade design of the PW-GE GP7200 vs the RR Trent 900 (both engines on the Airbus A380), we get a rare glimpse into the…
Bernstein Research on April 13 issued a research note that is one of the best side-by-side comparisons we’ve seen about the Pratt & Whitney P1000G Geared Turbo Fan and the CFM International LEAP-X. Bernstein’s aerospace team, led by Douglas Harned,…
Having won the US Air Force tanker award, keeping the Boeing 767 production line active for the foreseeable future, should Boeing introduce an updated commercial version of their venerable (and highly successful) small wide-body aircraft? We believe that the time…