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30 years in the making...P&W PurePower Geared Turbofan

beebee
edited October 2015 in Off-Topic
"To people outside the aircraft business, what may be most remarkable about the engines is that they took almost 30 years to develop. That’s about 15 times as long as the gestation period of an elephant and unimaginably longer than it takes to pop out a smartphone app. Could Pratt have gotten the hardware out faster? Probably. But industrial innovation on the scale of a commercial jet engine is inevitably and invariably a slog—one part inspiration to 99 parts perspiration."

Pratt and Whitney is one component of conglomerate UTX.

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  • chap
    Bee, thanks for this article. I have been wondering why PWA has not been doing much business with Boeing. They do need to develop a higher power version to compete with GE and Rolls Royce.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    Very interesting, bee- thanks. I hadn't heard anything about this development until now.
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