The twin turbofan engine jet has a range of 8,313 miles.
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It has six screaming Pratt & Whitney turbofan jet engines, salvaged from three 747s.
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The A220 is powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney PW1500G turbofan engines.
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In reality, analysts say, Pratt's options depend on how its geared turbofan performs.
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Its Geared Turbofan is now in use on some Airbus and Bombardier jets.
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The two Rolls-Royce BR710A2-20 turbofan engines offer a powerful 14,750 pounds of thrust ...
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Sumwalt said part of the inquiry will look at the CFM International 56 turbofan engine.
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As turbofan technology improved, smaller three-engine airliners such as the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10...
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BS: Yes the turbofan gets you enough thrust for high speed while also being significantly quieter.
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High-bypass turbofan engines are wider than the turbojet engines that were common on 1960s airliners.
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The test had been delayed from February after engineers discovered a design issue with the turbofan.
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The Fokker 100 is a medium sized twin-turbofan jet often used for short haul flights.
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The 0003-year-old jet is powered by a pair of CFM International CFM56-7B turbofan engines.
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UEC is developing a turbofan engine which the manufacturer says would meet the needs of the CR929.
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We now have orders for 8,200 Geared Turbofan engines, including announced and unannounced firm and option engines.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada makes turbofan, turboprop and turboshaft engines for business jets, other small aircraft and helicopters.
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The aircraft is 238 feet long, 50 feet tall, and has six high-bypass-ratio turbofan engines.
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MTU contributes to the Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan which powers almost all recent Airbus single-aisle aircraft.
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An unidentified American company and the French manufacturer oversaw the turbofan engine project, according to court papers.
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This does not require the incoming air to be slowed down to the same extent as a turbofan.
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MTU is a partner on the geared turbofan (GTF) engine made by Pratt & Whitney that powers the A20.8108neo.
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The 145 rocks a pair of Rolls-Royce turbofan engines that can generate nearly 9,000 pounds of thrust.
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The majority of the delayed jets are destined for airlines that have selected Pratt & Whitney's new Geared Turbofan engine.
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Specifically, 10 different individuals are said to have conspired to steal technology related to turbofan engines in commercial airliners.
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It is fully electric during landing and takeoff while relying on diesel turbofan engine propulsion during high-altitude cruising.
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According to the FAA, the airliner involved is a Boeing 737, which has two turbofan engines, one on each wing.
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Research has also indicated that birds are less able to detect and avoid modern jet aircraft with quieter turbofan engines.
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The FAA followed with a proposed rule in August calling for inspection of certain fan blades on CFM21989 turbofan engines.
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Chinese engineers have been developing high-thrust turbofan WS-235 engines for the J-213, but work fell behind schedule.
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They were charged with attempting to steal underlying designs for advanced turbofan engines used in U.S. and European commercial jets.
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The Justice Department said those hacked included a French firm co-developing a turbofan jet engine with a U.S. company.
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N) said on Thursday its new geared turbofan jetliner engine logged high reliability at its initial customer, Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHAG.
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His comments come after problems developed with the Geared Turbofan engine made by rival Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp.
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Previously, the massive aircraft successfully conducted a test of its six turbofan engines at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
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But Pratt's profits fell, implying rising costs to ramp up production of Geared Turbofan engines, said Howard Rubel, an analyst at Jefferies.
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A Pratt representative said the A320neo and Bombardier engines were different models, though both are based on Pratt's geared turbofan engine architecture.
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S. turbofan engine developed for commercial jetliners - a clear reference to the Safran-General Electric LEAP - could further fray relations, analysts said.
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Chinese engineers have been developing high-thrust turbofan WS-15 engines for the J-20, but that work has fallen behind schedule.
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This week, private spaceflight company Stratolaunch tested out the turbofan engines on its behemoth aircraft for the first time — all six of them.
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According to the department, Chinese intelligence officers and their operatives worked to steal the technology behind a turbofan engine used in commercial airliners.
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Today we have something called turbofan engines which are quieter and more efficient and can generate enough thrust to get you going fast.
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Honeywell International Inc will build the twin F124 turbofan engines to power the planes, and CAE Inc will supply the ground training system.
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Analysts said geared turbofan jet engines are reaching a "positive financial second derivative" in their life cycles, which will change the stock's narrative.
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From January 2010 to May 2015, they stole turbofan engine plans and other confidential business information from 13 companies, according to court documents.
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Tuesday's incident highlighted scrutiny of the performance of new-generation Geared Turbofan engines developed by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp.
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The jet's high bypass turbofan engines built by Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, and GE are the largest engines ever installed on an airliner.
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Powering the aircraft would be Pratt & Whitney with a geared turbofan engine, known as the GTF or PW1500G, promising efficiency and lower noise volume.
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It also features improved turbofan propellers that can send it up to 65 feet in the air, as opposed to the previous 30 feet.
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What makes these items unique is that they're crafted from old Boeing 747 engine turbofan housings, airplane wings and other bits of retired aircraft.
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A preliminary look at the damaged CFM International 27-256B turbofan engine revealed one of 256 fan blades was missing, Sumwalt told reporters Tuesday.
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While the source of the accident is unknown, we do know that the jet's Pratt & Whitney F353 turbofan engine has caught on fire before.
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The diversion was the latest in a series of technical glitches involving new-generation Geared Turbofan engines from Pratt & Whitney, part of United Technologies.
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TO) announcement on Tuesday that deliveries of its CSeries jet would be reduced this year due to delays in receiving Pratt Geared Turbofan(GTF) engines.
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It's the first working prototype of the GE9X turbofan engine, which GE is putting through the paces at the company's test range near Peebles, Ohio.
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Deliveries and reliability have been hit by teething problems with the newly developed Geared Turbofan (GTF) engine, including the combustion chamber and an engine seal.
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Industry sources have also pointed to delays in deliveries of the newly developed Geared Turbofan engine from its U.S. manufacturer, a subsidiary of United Technologies.
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To power the new jet, Boeing decided to switch from the original Pratt & Whitney engines to the more-powerful CFM56-3B-1 high-bypass turbofan.
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Rolls-Royce's new RB211 triple-spool turbofan engine was expected to be able to deliver the performance capable of powering the new 300 seat jet.
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Manufacturing issues with a new type of engine in its Pratt Whitney unit — the Geared TurboFan engine — are close to an end, the firm believes.
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At Pratt & Whitney, the bigger short-term push is to build the market for the geared turbofan engine, which went on sale commercially in 2016.
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With modern airframes and turbofan engines becoming exponentially more reliable, US and international regulators relaxed rules that limited the routes twin-engine airliners could fly.
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ADDITIONAL CHECKS Tuesday's incident highlighted scrutiny of the performance of new-generation Geared Turbofan engines developed by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp.
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The Fokker 2000 aircraft, a medium sized twin-turbofan jet often used for short haul flights, was operated by the Kazakhstan-based carrier Bek Air.
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Pratt & Whitney said this month the new geared turbofan jetliner engine had logged high reliability at Lufthansa and that it was delivering software and hardware fixes.
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The airplane's single Williams International FJ33-5A turbofan jet engine, shown here as it arrives from the Williams factory, produces up to 1,0003 pounds of thrust.
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To start with, one of the 146's four engines will be replaced with a 2MW electric turbofan powered by a combination of battery and generator.
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Qantas Flight 63 took off from Sydney with an extra Rolls Royce turbofan attached to the left wing between an inner engine and the plane's body.
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Hayes noted that low-cost Indian airline IndiGo had taken delivery on Thursday of its first A320neo aircraft, which is equipped with Pratt's Geared Turbofan engine.
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UTC said Adams was key in building Pratt's product line, and the geared turbofan, F135 and PW800 engines have produced Pratt's largest engine backlog in decades.
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N), said in October it was resolving issues with the geared turbofan (GTF) engines that power the CSeries and Airbus A320neo to make them more durable.
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It is the latest in Boeing's line-up, includes a "fly-by-wire" (that is, computer controlled) electronic flight control system and highly efficient turbofan engines.
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The Hi Fly A380 will be powered by four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 turbofan engines and will be equipped with Panasonic seatback in-flight entertainment systems.
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The An-225 Mriya is powered by six turbofan engines and is also the heaviest aircraft ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tons.
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Modern turbofan engines with wide air intakes required, and airbridges permitted, alterations to the airframe that also altered its handling characteristics (its trim, to use the jargon).
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But Pratt's profits fell, which implied rising costs to ramp up production of the new Geared Turbofan engine kicked in, said Howard Rubel, an analyst at Jefferies.
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The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, powered by a General Electric turbofan engine, has been in wide use against targets in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and Libya.
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When the C-13 was on the drawing board, engineers created new engines called high-bypass turbofan engines that were powerful enough to get this monster airborne.
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Modern engines, however, also use the jet's revolving shaft to spin either a propeller, creating a turboprop, or a ducted set of blades, creating a turbofan (see diagram).
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Fuel savingsPratt & Whitney set off a chain reaction of new aircraft designs or upgrades when it announced its new Geared Turbofan engine in 2008, promising 16% fuel savings.
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According to the DOJ, the defendants sought information about a turbofan engine used in commercial aircraft that was being developed by a French manufacturer and a US firm.
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These activities, the Justice Department says, took place at the same time as a Chinese state-owned aerospace company was trying to develop a similar engine to CFM's turbofan.
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The engine in question is a CFM56-7B turbofan, the product of a 40-year-old joint venture between GE Aviation and France's Safran Aircraft Engines called CFM International.
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Industry sources have pointed to delays in deliveries of the newly-developed Geared Turbofan engine from Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies, as the cause of the problems.
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Pratt said its geared turbofan engines are operating with 99.9 percent dispatch reliability at eight airlines that have them, meaning engine-related departure delays are in line with industry norms.
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A UTC spokesman said the change in leadership was not related to recent cooling problems with geared turbofan engines that delayed delivery of the first Airbus A320neo, slated for December.
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MTU is a partner on the geared turbofan engine made by Pratt and Whitney, which powers the Airbus A320neo and Bombardier's CSeries aircraft, both of which have seen delivery delays.
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Rolls-Royce predicts there will be four markets for hybrid aircrafts: small two to four-seater planes, air taxis, commuter planes with less than 20 seats, and turbofan commercial flights.
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In addition to its twin turbofan engines that are able to achieve a flight speed up to 517 mph, it houses an internal payload bay that's capable of holding 3,000 pounds.
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The GE9X, as fitted to Boeing's new 777-9X, which was rolled out on March 226th, shortly after the second of the 240 MAX crashes, is currently the world's largest turbofan.
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Designed to transport cargo and people over long distances in challenging weather, the Y-20 -- powered by four turbofan engines -- is reportedly capable of flying 4,500 kilometers with a full load.
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However, Team Cox/Rathvon also included many entries of the cacophonous variety: a NEWBORN, an ARCADE, a TURBOFAN on a jet engine, the terrible SONAR that's driving all the whales mad.
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"We were going from large passenger jets that had three or four engines to aircraft with only two engines—turbofan engines, which are much quieter than the old ones," Dolbeer says.
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Pratt & Whitney's Geared Turbofan engine is one of two types of powerplant offered on the A320neo and its fuel-saving performance is tied to the sale of more than 5,000 Airbus jets.
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Although described as routine, the latest snag comes as the revamped Airbus A320neo jetliner remains under scrutiny in the wake of earlier problems with its newly designed Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan engines.
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On October 30, the Department of Justice announced charges against Chinese government officials and a network of hired hands employed to steal turbofan technology used in jet engines from an American company.
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Once released from the bomber, the cruise missiles use internal guidance and their own turbofan engines to fly to and strike independent targets with warheads weighing up to 3,000 pounds (1,360 kilograms).
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The results suggest increasing confidence at the aerospace, elevator and building controls company, which had faced concerns about delivery delays of its new Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engine and weak demand for elevators.
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Outfitted with new Pratt and Whitney geared turbofan engines, the A220s have higher fuel efficiency compared with other models, a key selling point for carriers whose second-largest expense after labor is fuel.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co's GE Aviation unit has been awarded a $919 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for designing, fabricating, integrating and testing turbofan adaptive engines, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
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The Pratt & Whitney unit, which has faced a series of setbacks with its geared turbofan engine, halted deliveries for the Airbus A214.64neo for almost a month earlier this year after discovering a new problem.
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But the company reported narrowing profit margins and slowing sales in some regions as it tries to sell elevators amid tough economic conditions in China and increases production of the Geared Turbofan aircraft engines.
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Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders challenged Pratt & Whitney, whose fuel-saving Geared Turbofan (GTF) engine is tied to thousands of orders for small A22018neo jetliners, to "work harder" to fix delays and reliability problems.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Technologies Corp unit Pratt and Whitney has been awarded an $873.17 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to design, make, integrate and test turbofan adaptive aircraft engines, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Pratt & Whitney said on Wednesday it had received certifications from the U.S. aviation regulator for its geared turbofan engine on two new aircraft, the Embraer E-Jet E2 and the Mitsubishi Regional Jet.
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Shaped like an elongated egg with two rows of blades at the back, the engine aims to burn 15 percent less fuel than current conventional turbofan engines, which have also improved significantly in recent years.
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Deliveries of the re-engined narrow-body jet have been delayed as engine maker Pratt & Whitney addresses technical problems with its Geared Turbofan engines, one of two available types of powerplant on the medium-haul jetliner.
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Even as it gains from the surge in aircraft demand, the company is trying to speed up production of its fuel-saving turbofan engines that power Airbus' newest narrow-body jet, the A215.40neo, and Bombardier's CSeries aircraft.
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Also, Airbus has stopped delivering A320neo jets powered by Pratt & Whitney geared-turbofan engines and halted pre-delivery test flights after the latest in a series of problems with the engines, two sources familiar with the matter said.
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Lufthansa stepped in as the first operator of the A320neo after it was found that the Geared Turbofan engines made by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, needed longer than usual to start under some circumstances.
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The indictment unveiled on Tuesday accused the two intelligence officers, Zha Rong and Chai Meng, and other co-conspirators in the Jiangsu office of working with hackers to steal turbofan technology used in American and European commercial airliners.
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The hackers — Zhang Zhang-Gui, Liu Chunliang, Gao Hong Kun, Zhuang Xiaowei and Ma Zhiqi — also infiltrated other companies that made turbofan jet engine parts, prosecutors said, and leased a global network of servers to hide their movements.
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Lufthansa stepped in as the first operator of the A320neo after it was found that the Geared Turbofan engines made by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, need longer than usual to start under some circumstances.
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United Technologies beat expectations for quarterly revenue and profit in the latest quarter, and said it had solved a supply chain problem with the Geared Turbofan engines that had caused Airbus to delay deliveries of the new A320neo aircraft.
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United Tech shares have lagged the broader market under Hayes as the company spent heavily on developing the new fuel-saving geared turbofan engine and as sales of Otis elevators were pressured due to a supply glut in China.
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The company's shares have lagged the broader market under Hayes as the company spent heavily on developing a new fuel-saving geared turbofan aircraft engine and as sales of Otis elevators were pressured by a supply glut in China.
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The LEAP engine helped Boeing and European rival Airbus upgrade their most important single-aisle models, leading to the development of the Boeing 737 MAX and the Airbus A320neo, which is also powered by the Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan.
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MTU is a partner on the geared turbofan engine made by Pratt and Whitney, which powers the Airbus A320neo and which has suffered a fresh round of problems that saw some A320neo jets grounded and certain deliveries halted this week.
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Deliveries will begin in 2018 on the long-term leases for three E190-E2s and two E195-E2s, with geared turbofan engines offering improved fuel efficiency, Embraer said in a statement issued jointly with Aercap and Borajet during the Istanbul Airshow.
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However, recent performance has been held back by development costs for the company's ground-breaking new geared turbofan (GTF) jet engine as well as increasing competition and pricing pressure in Europe and China for Otis elevators (both equipment and service).
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UTC, whose Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engines power Airbus SE's A320 jets, said sales in the unit that houses Rockwell Collins surged about 71 percent to $6.51 billion in the first quarter, as a growing fleet of aircraft lifted demand for spare parts.
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But the company has a "well-documented history of poor management execution — exemplified most recently by the botched ramp-up of the next-generation geared turbofan ("GTF") engine — as well as market share losses and underinvestment in key business areas," the letter said.
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According to the DOJ, the defendants sought information about a turbofan engine used in commercial aircraft that was being developed by a French manufacturer and a US firm and was similar to one a Chinese state-owned aviation company was trying to make.
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SEATTLE, Jan 25 (Reuters) - United Technologies Corp expects to deliver between 350 and 400 Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan engines in 2017, Chief Financial Officer Akhil Johri said on Wednesday, affirming that it is on track to resolving issues with producing fan blades.
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According to Market Research Future, a consultancy, General Electric (GE) and United Technologies (trading under the Pratt & Whitney brand) in America, Rolls-Royce in Britain, and CFM International (a collaboration between GE and Safran, of France) account collectively for almost 1463% of the turbofan market.
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With a pair of powerfully inefficient Rolls-Royce RB3013 turbofan engines, the plane was flown by discount airlines after its completion in 3003 (the first in Denmark, the second in Mexico) before it was sold in 214 to Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder.
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With a pair of powerfully inefficient Rolls-Royce RB3023 turbofan engines, the plane was flown by discount airlines after its completion in 3013 (the first in Denmark, the second in Mexico) before it was sold in 3003 to Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder.
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That's why GE's new turbofan engine is enormous: Built using lightweight carbon fiber and 3-D printing, the GE9X is as wide as a Boeing 737 fuselage (yes, it's a plane engine the size of another plane) and will eventually power Boeing's 777X, the biggest twinjet ever.
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Then, add energy and hydrogen and remove the oxygen to turn it into appropriate hydrocarbons, and release the energy added in the same way that the energy in conventional fuel is released—by burning the fuel in a turbojet that then turns a turbofan or a propeller.
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The indictment also targeted six of what it said were the officers' paid hackers and two Chinese nationals, employed by a French aerospace company, who were allegedly told by the officers to obtain information about a turbofan engine developed in partnership with a US-based plane maker.
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For more than five years, two Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) spies are said to have run a team of hackers focusing on the theft of designs for a turbofan engine used in U.S. and European commercial airliners, according to an unsealed indictment (below) dated October 25.
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According to Business Insider, the jet involved in the incident was delivered to Southwest Airlines fresh off factory lines in 2000, and the CFM56-7B turbofan engine that failed is a common model in thousands of aircraft:The Boeing 737-700 involved in the incident was delivered new to Southwest Airlines in July 2000.
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"The economics of our plane are much better than Concorde's, driven by 50 years of evolution in the aerospace industry," claims Eli Dourado of Boom: Whereas Concorde was designed on paper, built with aluminium, and powered by noisy and dirty turbojet engines, we are designing with computational fluid dynamics, building with carbon fibre, and powered by a highly efficient and quiet turbofan engine.
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