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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Pratt & Whitney has been chosen to supply replacement engines for 17 Air Force E-8C airborne surveillance planes. Each of the modified Boeing 707-300 jets is now powered by four Pratt TF-33 engines.

The FAA yesterday ordered operators of certain Pratt&Whitney JT8D engines to check their inventories for compressor disks that the engine maker says may have been damaged during manufacturing, and ...

A modified thrust reverser that reduces noise and augments thrust on Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 series engines is being offered to Boeing MD-80 operators by Las Vegas-based Dugan Kinetics. "A new stow ...

Improvements to the JT8D are aimed at enabling the engine to meet the latest ICAO Chapter 4 noise rules, which took effect in January. A noise-reducing kit will, says the company, provide a solution ...