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After months of tests, the Civil Aeronautics Administration last week stamped formal approval on the engines slated to power the first U.S. jet airliners. The power plants: Pratt & Whitney's J57 and J75, scheduled for 90% of the 250-odd jetliners on order (both Boeing...
Douglas' DC-8). That the J57 and J75 had passed with flying colors was fine for Pratt & Whitney. But it was one more blow to the rest of the troubled U.S. air-craft-engine industry. In a few short years, the five well-matched big companies that had competed for the jet market have been narrowed to Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Aircraft Co. Said a top Defense Department official: "It's a short, sad story. Pratt & Whitney has the best engines, and that is what we have got to have...
Bombers & Backlogs. Though military secrecy clouds the exact backlog and production figures, Pratt & Whitney will fly off with at least 70% of every defense engine dollar in 1957, leaving its competitors to dogfight for the remaining...
...This conference will be much like the alumni conference earlier this month," Laurence O. Pratt '26, public relations director of the Program, said last night. "The needs of the University and the background of the Program will be outlined to these men, with the idea that some of them might be interested in helping us in whatever way they...
Working with O'Brian on the committee to strengthen the school were H. Irving Pratt '26, national vice-chairman; Graham B. Blaine '17, Chairman of the Executive Committees; Walter H. Trumbull '15, vice-chairman of the Executive Committee, and Gordon Huggins '29, Executive Secretary...