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...decision was a painful blow for Pratt & Whitney, which had been working furiously to upgrade its engine since the Air Force invited competitive bidding and thereby set off what became known as the "Great Fighter Engine...
...Pratt & Whitney's product, the F100, had tended to stall when it was first placed on F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft in the 1970s; the engine is considered responsible for about one-third of the 35 F-16s that have been lost in crashes...
...company has made a series of design improvements over the years; recently added features include a new control system and a safer and longer-lasting main fuel pump. Both General Electric and Pratt & Whitney had lobbied hard to win the contract. While GE officials disparaged their competitor as "Brand X," Pratt & Whitney executives dismissed GE as the "lightbulb company." Last week Pratt & Whitney proclaimed in a full-page newspaper ad that the F100 was "a new bench mark for fighter engine reliability and durability." One battle in the Great Fighter Engine War is over, but the fighting is sure...
Some of the buildings were ego trips that overpowered the art they were to shelter and display, among them Frank Lloyd Wright's dizzying Guggenheim Museum (1959) and Marcel Breuer's brutal Whitney Museum of American Art (1966), both in New York City. Philip Johnson's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln (1963) returned to a somewhat saccharine classicism. But the one museum of that hectic period that seemed to work best for the display of art was Barnes' Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1971). Its architectural form is not particularly...
...CHRISTOPHER J. Dodd (D-Conn.) called it "the Great Engine War." "A great victory for Massachusetts, for the Air Force, and for the American taxpayer," countered Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). "An insult to Pratt and Whitney, its employees, and the American taxpayer" was the way Rep. Barbara Kennelly (D-Conn.) phrased...