Pratt & Whitney has developed a fix for F135 engines afflicted with “harmonic resonance,” which should only take 30 minutes per affected engine to correct, company officials said. Deliveries of the engine, which powers the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter, resumed Feb. 18 after nearly ...
If the Air Force and Pentagon decide the F-35 fighter needs an all-new engine, it wouldn’t just give the jet range and performance improvements—it would drive a refresh of the entire fighter propulsion industrial base, a GE Aerospace official claimed Feb. 16. Competitor Pratt & ...
A month after F-35 fighter deliveries were halted pending an investigation into a Dec. 14 crash, Pratt & Whitney said it has a fix in hand that will allow deliveries to resume by the end of February. The problem had to do with harmonic resonance, ...
Lockheed Martin is finishing but not delivering F-35 fighters, pending results of a Navy investigation into a recent F-35B crash, company officials said on their quarterly results call. They also revealed heavy charges against the hypersonic AGM-183 ARRW missile program and said the company's classified ...
Fallout from the Dec. 15 crash of an F-35B is widening, as the Joint Program Office revealed deliveries of new F135 engines for all F-35 fighters were halted on Dec. 27—while deliveries of newly completed F-35 fighters were stopped the day of the crash. Deliveries ...
Pratt & Whitney would like to keep its monopoly on supplying powerplants for the F-35 fighter fleet and is pushing for the government to choose an upgrade of the F135 engine instead of an all-new adaptive engine, which it said would be far more costly ...
The Pentagon will soon decide whether to move ahead with a new engine for the F-35, and officials won’t simply table the issue indefinitely, Defense Department acquisition and sustainment chief William LaPlante said at an acquisition conference. He also said calls to break up the ...
Retired Maj. Gen. Kimberly A. Crider moderated a discussion on "Unlocking the Power of Digital Engineering" with retired Brig. Gen. Steve J. Bleymaier of Aerospace and Defense, Ansys; Scott Nowlin of BAE Systems; and Dave Stagney of Pratt & Whitney at AFA's Air, Space & ...
Retired Maj. Gen. Larry Stutzriem of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies moderates a discussion on "The Power of Unmanned Systems" with Matthew George of Merlin Labs, retired Col. Mark Stiner of Elbit Systems of America, and Steve Burd of Pratt & Whitney at AFA's ...
Nearly 50 members of Congress have urged Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III to fund a new phase of development for advanced fighter engines in the fiscal 2024 budget, sending a letter to the Pentagon on Oct. 7. The letter, signed by 49 lawmakers from ...
GE Aviation announced that it completed milestone tests for the engine it hopes will power Air Force fighters well into the future. GE calls its offering in the Adaptive Engine Transition Program the XA100, and the company hopes the Air Force will soon select it ...
The Air Force propulsion program tasked with producing engines for the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter awarded contracts to a mix of engine makers and aircraft builders Aug. 19, hinting that integration could be a priority in the prototyping process. GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, ...