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News and developments about aircraft engines, including turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft and piston.
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FAA Cleen Program May Revive Open Rotor Engines
The FAA awarded five contracts worth a total of $125 million over five years to engine manufacturers and Boeing to “develop and demonstrate technologies th
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Centurion’s New 2.0s Aviation Diesel Earns EASA Certification
Centurion Aircraft Engines’ Centurion 2.0s is now available in Europe as an upgrade through a supplemental type certificate (STC), which covers installing
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Pratt & Whitney’s F135 Breaks Sound Barrier on F-35B
Pratt & Whitney’s F135 engine has achieved a first for the Lockheed Martin F-35 program by accelerating the F-35B STOVL version through the sound barri
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P&WC: Bizjet Market To Grow by 2015
Pratt & Whitney Canada president John Saabas told Bloomberg Businessweek that the business jet market will return to peak production levels by 2015, re
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Pratt & Whitney Awarded Cleen Contract by FAA
The FAA has awarded Pratt & Whitney a one-year contract under its Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise (Cleen) program to develop eng
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GE Aviation Cleen Program To Demonstrate Reduced Fuel, Emissions and Noise
GE Aviation received an award from the FAA as part of the Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise (Cleen) program–a joint government-industry initiati
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CFM Finishes Testing First Leap-X Demo Core
CFM International has completed the second phase of testing of the Leap-X core demonstrator known as eCore 1, meaning all three major elements of the first
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SaM146 Gains EASA Certification
The Powerjet SaM146 received its EASA certification yesterday, June 23, some six years after Snecma of France and Russia's NPO Saturn founded the joint ven
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Questions Arise About Practicality of 787 Standard Engine Interface
It seems Boeing hasn’t convinced everyone of the value of its standard engine interface feature on the 787 Dreamliner, which the company says allows quick
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Boeing 737 Re-engining Decision Hinges On Replacement Timing
Boeing's decision to re-engine the existing 737
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New Materials Give Next Generation of Engines Their Edge
Composites and other new and expensive materials play key roles in the engines that will power new single-aisle airliners, such as the Comac C919, Bombardi
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NTSB Issues Urgent Recommendations for GE CF6-45/50 Turbofans
The NTSB issued two urgent safety recommendations to the FAA that pertain to th
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Rolls-Royce Advancing Engine Tech with E3E Core
Rolls-Royce today announced that it has successfully run the latest E3E (efficiency, environment, economy) core engine as part of its two-shaft research pr
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PW1000G Core Surpasses 100 Hours of Testing
More than 100 hours of testing on a full-scale PW1000G PurePower engine core has so far validated Pratt & Whitney's performance goals for its new generatio
Aircraft
Alternative F-35 JSF Engine Program Lives To See Another Day
The U.S. House armed services seapower and air-land forces subcommittees this week included $485 million in continued funding for the GE/Rolls-Royce F136.
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Honeywell Engine Drives New Hawker
Coming together yesterday at the show with a model of the Honeywell TFE731-50R–the enhanced performance engine that will help make the new Hawker 800XPR a
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EBACE 2010 News Clips
Airshow Display Upgrade Makes Euro Debut
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XPR Upgrade Package Adds Pep to Hawker 800XP
Hawker Beechcraft Services today at EBACE unveiled the aftermarket Hawker 800XPR package for the Hawker 800XP.
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GE Begins Certification Testing for H80 T-prop
The first GE H80 turboprop engine recently began testing in a test cell at the GE Aviation Czech facility in Prague.
Charter & Fractional
Embraer addresses Phenom 300 ‘glitches’
Early operators of Embraer’s $8.14 million Phenom 300 light jet are praising the aircraft’s speed, fuel efficiency, range and short landing distances, but
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GE Opening ‘More Electric’ R&D Center
GE Aviation plans to create an Electrical Power Integrated Systems Research & Development Center near Dayton, Ohio, to research more-electric aircraft
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Dgen 380 TURBOFAN ENGINE begins endurance testing
Start-up engine manufacturer Price Induction began endurance testing on its 575-pound-thrust
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Engine makers consider clean-sheet designs
Engine manufacturers are here at EBACE providing a glimpse at where powerplant technology is going for business aviation with several clean-sheet designs o
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PWC expands its bizav engine series
Despite last year’s cancellation of the Cessna Columbus program, which would have been the launch customer for Pratt & Whitney Canada’s PurePower PW800 ser
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European Bizav Flights Resume After Volcano Chaos
Business aircraft grounded by ash from an Icelandic volcano were back flying in Europe's skies minutes after authorities lifted widespread airspace closure
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Small Turbofan To Begin Endurance Testing
Start-up engine manufacturer Price Induction is about to begin endurance testing on its 575-pound-thrust Dgen 380 turbofan by the end of this month.
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Low Engine Use May Yield High Repair Costs
Duncan Aviation advises that all operators of Honeywell engines that do not run them frequently and want to keep them off the Damaged Engine List should
