In the late ‘70s, my agency pal and I started making bi-weekly flights from Calgary to Edmonton’s ITV studios to record TV spots for Sportchek, a provincial sporting goods retailer with its greatest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MELBOURNE, Fla., Feb. 9, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) recently completed the JT8D propulsion pod's bleed air system's preliminary design review (PDR) for the E-8C ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

East Hartford, USA: Pratt & Whitney, a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines has been selected by Northrop ...

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 ...