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Pratt & Whitney has been around the aviation business since 1925. There are not any firms in the aero engine business with a history this long. We spoke with Mr Larry Jones,Product Line VP for the PW4000 this morning. This engine follows a long line of PW aero engines. It dates back to 1987, but is...

Scott Hamilton speaks with Pratt & Whitney's Bob Saia about the PurePower (AKA GTF). They talk about scalability, engine variants, materials, MRO/costs, and he mentions the Goodrich nacelle technologies. This lat item is something not often discussed...

Scott Hamilton's second part of his discussion with Pratt & Whitney's Bob Saia. They discuss the new engines coming out as well as new airplane programs. We have an interesting view of open rotors - an open rotor needs more than double the diameter of a regular fan engine...

With two big orders ILFC is back in the hunt. The orders were for 33 737-800s and then 100 A320neo family aircraft. The NEO order is especially eye popping - 60 of these planes will be P&W powered. This provides a huge boost to that company's GTF program...

Guy Norris from Aviation Week recently went to visit P&W's Florida test facility. There he got to see and hear the new GTF engine. His thoughts are most encouraging. He notes the quiet confidence among the PW team and of particular interest is what he picked from NASA...

As Pratt & Whitney's new engine gets closer to its first flight on an airplane for which is was designed, industry experts are increasingly coming out with supportive voices. The naysayers are growing fewer. Even Airbus' John Leahy is satisfied the GTF will meet P&W's claims for fuel burn and maint...

This recording was made in P&W's Customer Center in Hartford. Hence the cathedral-like audio and occasional heavy background noise. It was no recording studio! Dr Alan Epstein, P&W's VP Technology & Environment provides an excellent history lesson and also shares some thoughts on the future. List...

Jon Ostrower gives us a quick sense of how the P&W team and its engine are doing after his recent visit. The team is quietly confident - there are a number of opportunities they see to get back into a leading supplier role. Having missed a few in the past P&W knows what it means to not be an option...

This is a very interesting airline - it has leaped into prominence recently with both strategic and tactical moves. CAPA's Kathryn Creedy explains that these strategic investments in airlines helped cement its relationships. Tactical moves brought it into news deals - as in Hawaii. Republic has m...