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The secret of powerless flight

While planes are built to glide when the right person is in charge, why are aircraft engines failing?

Published Fri, Feb 7, 2020 · 09:50 PM
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PRATT & Whitney (P&W) is a not a name that springs to the mind of most travellers. Yet, it is a substantial aerospace component manufacturer with the sort of antecedents that would make Rolls-Royce or BMW blush.

Mounted discretely beneath the wings of numerous aircraft, its sturdy engines have since 1925 powered everyone and everything from the US Navy and Amelia Earhart to the current Euro darlings - the Airbus A320neo and the A321neo.

It is literally a company with high flying credentials.

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