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Saturday, July 19, 2014
No Pain, No Gain: Pratt & Whitney's F135 Engine Still Looks Like A Winner
The 2014 Farnborough International Airshow probably isn’t going to be remembered fondly at Pratt & Whitney, the aircraft-engine unit of industrial powerhouse United Technologies.
America’s newest fighter aircraft, the F-35 Lightning II, was a no-show due to a last-minute problem with its Pratt & Whitney engine. So was Bombardier’s flagship CSeries commercial jet, which encountered its own problems with a new Pratt engine in May.
Published reports during the airshow indicated that both issues were relatively minor — the kind of setbacks to be expected when cutting-edge innovations are developed — but P&W execs had to spend much of the week quelling unfounded fears.
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