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The Pratt & Whitney PW1000G family, also marketed as the Pratt & Whitney GTF (geared turbofan), is a family of high-bypass geared turbofan engines produced by Pratt & Whitney. Following years of development and testing on various demonstrators, the program officially launched in 2008 with the PW1200G destined for the Mitsubishi SpaceJet (a ...
The engine was given a United States military aircraft engine designation of YF102-LD-100. [1]: 190 Six YF102 engines were built for the YA-9. The 7,500 lbf (33 kN) thrust engines powered the A-9A prototypes for seven months of flight tests in 1972, recording 238 flights and 652 flight hours. [3] These engines were later reused in the C-8A ...
The -5 model was certified in 1982, and a decade later, an engine utilizing the TFE731-5 power section and a TFE731-3 fan was built and designated the TFE731-4, intended to power the Cessna Citation VII aircraft. [4] The most recent version is the TFE731-50, based on the -60 used on the Falcon 900DX, which underwent its flight test program in ...
The U.S. government's auto safety regulator has ended a 2 1/2-year investigation into Ford engine failures after the company replaced engines or extended the warranty on some vehicles.
The first geared turbofan engine was created in 1970. [3] However, economically scaling the idea from small engines to medium and large ones was not possible until the 21st century.
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The Honeywell FX5 was a 6,000lb-thrust (27kN) geared turbofan based on a technology demonstrator core. Aiming for a 20%-plus reduction in the cost of ownership from the TFE731-60 and to span a 3,000–8,000 lbf (13–36 kN) family, it could have been certificated within 36 months. [1]
The recall includes all codes between 2305140 to 2405170 for the cakes, 3174 to 4047 for the cones and 2307187 to2406163 for the sandwiches with plant code 24-65, 24-0065, 2465, 240065.