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 ...
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 ...
The grounding and retirement of older Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines is causing the manufacturer to scale down radically its overhaul operations for the powerplant. In parallel it is winding up its ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vaughn College, a partner school for Delta TechOps, received an engine donation in March to assist students studying to become aviation maintenance technicians (AMTs) with their training. Through ...
Built in the early 1960s, the Boeing 727 was designed to bridge the gap between short-haul and long-haul flights, operating between airports with shorter runways and lacking infrastructure. It had ...
If you’re like me, you’ve been watching the ongoing saga of Boeing and its 737 MAX. The gist of it for our purposes is that the new MAX versions of the 737 are powered by larger-diameter engines than ...