Word: whitneys
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...show will travel to other museums in California and the Midwest, finishing in Kansas City in the fall of 1986. It will not be seen on the East Coast, presumably because it lacks the factitious glamour that might commend it to such institutions as New York City's Whitney Museum. Reflective art of this kind evidently cannot compete ( with toilets decorated by post-graffitists...
...disaster last Friday added to an estimated civilianaviation death toll of more than 1,500 this year; the worst previous year was 1974, when 1,299 perished. The McDonnell Douglas jet was equipped with Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 engines, an older model of the engine that apparently caught fire and caused a British Boeing 737 to crash in August. A Pratt & Whitney spokesman said initial information about the Midwest crash provided "no reason to believe it was an engine problem...
...crack in the airplane engine that caught fire on a Boeing 737 jet in Manchester, England, two weeks ago, causing an explosion and fire that killed 55 passengers. In reaction, the FAA ordered U.S. airlines to schedule inspections of all similar JT8D-15 airplane engines made by Pratt & Whitney, the nation's largest manufacturer of aircraft engines...
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...
...conclusions of a Pratt & Whitney survey of maintenance reports concerning JT8D engines, ordered last week by the FAA, are expected to be announced this week. Pratt & Whitney officials issued a statement last week warning aircraft operators to inspect all such engines, particularly the combustion chambers. At the same time, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who flew home from vacation in Austria and immediately visited the disaster site, ordered a "rigorous inquiry" into the explosion. Government investigators are predicting that the probe could take up to 18 months...