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The Mirage G was a French prototype aircraft that ultimately never made it into military service. The jet, powered by a potent Pratt & Whitney/Snecma FF 306 turbofan, revolutionized the idea of the ...

Raquel Rivera, who runs Pratt & Whitney’s assembly plants, wanted to know what was going wrong with production of the company’s new flagship jet engine, and at an emotional meeting in late March at ...

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NASA has launched a research effort aimed at squeezing 5-10% more fuel efficiency out of turbofan cores, with the goal of developing engine technology for future commercial aircraft, possibly ...

Nobody at Pratt & Whitney is going to remember 2020 as a good year for the company. The engine business of aerospace behemoth Raytheon Technologies RTX has seen sales of commercial aircraft products ...

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The US Department of Justice has levied new charges against 10 alleged Chinese spies who purportedly sought to steal proprietary corporate information, including information related to commercial ...