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...past ten weeks, and the third involving a Boeing aircraft. No pattern has emerged, however, that suggests any linkage between the various accidents. Preliminary reports on the Manchester wreck cited an "uncontained engine failure," meaning an explosion in the plane's engine, which was built for Boeing by Pratt & Whitney of East Hartford, Conn. In the case of Air India Flight 182, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the Irish coast on June 23, killing all 329 aboard, a bomb is suspected of having caused the 747 to disintegrate in midair. The JAL crash on Aug. 12, which claimed...
Either way, all eyes were on Pratt & Whitney, the division of United Technologies Corp. that manufactures the engine. The company's JT8D engines have had a series of malfunctions. Last October, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued a directive to JT8D operators around the world to check turbine parts, an order that was passed on to all carriers in the United Kingdom. Eight months later, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board contacted the FAA, citing several turbine disk failures over the past four years aboard JT8D-powered planes and again called for the engines to be inspected. The FAA asked...
...sponsors emphasized that a child's interest in paper planes may lead to a career in aerospace, and even to breakthroughs in design. A case in point was Robert C. Manson, who grew obsessed with paper planes as a schoolboy and now, at 26, is a design engineer for Pratt & Whitney in Montreal. He explained: "What makes a paper plane fly well, the lift and balance and aerodynamic design, is what makes a real plane fly well. The principles are the same...
...fiscal 1986, to $277.5 billion. But critics, incensed by stories of $7,600 coffeemakers and $400 hammers, are now challenging the price that the Pentagon pays for everything from wrenches to warplanes. Air Force Secretary Verne Orr acknowledged the public furor in his dunning letters to G.E. and Pratt & Whitney: "National support for building military strength has been severely battered by public perception that we pay too much for the goods and services we acquire...
...whole point of these contracts, argues G.E., is to give the supplier an incentive to perform better. "There were no cost overruns and no overcharging," declared Brian Rowe, a G.E. vice president. "The Government did not pay one cent more than it contracted to pay." Both G.E. and Pratt & Whitney, which on similar contracts made profits averaging 14.6% instead of the projected 13%, indicated that they would not meet the Government's refund request...