COMMERCIAL AVIATION
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Aviation International News
Airbus's choice of the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan on the A320neo and Rolls-Royce's subsequent divesture in engine joint-venture IAE might have signaled to some the beginning of the end of the V2500 turbofan.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Reuters
Canada's Bombardier Inc is hoping to carve a new niche in the cutthroat airplane market with a fuel-efficient, medium-haul jet that makes its first flight this month, but its all-new CSeries needs an avalanche of orders to stave off bigger rivals.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Aviation International News
As Pratt & Whitney Canada saw revenues from its business jet engine segment suffer through one of the industry's steepest downturns in history, the company's highly diversified product line has allowed it to, as P&WC president John Saabas put it, "ride the wave" of fortune in other sectors and consolidate its leading position in the small engine business.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Aviation International News
A recent Boeing study predicted a demand for up to 23,000 single-aisle airliners over the next 20 years.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Reuters
Boeing on Tuesday upgraded its 20-year forecast for airplane demand, saying airlines will need 35,280 new jets worth $4.8 trillion as the world's fleet doubles over the next two decades.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Canadian Press
Bombardier sees nothing major that could prevent the CSeries from making its maiden flight later this month.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Flight International
The Bombardier CSeries is almost ready to fly. A six-week battery of critical software tests that began in late March revealed no show-stoppers.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Air Transport World
Pratt & Whitney has entered the flight testing program with its PW1100G geared turbofan engine for the Airbus A320neo.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Flight International
First flight of the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G took off on 15 May, exactly as it was planned more than two years ago - and ended only moments ahead of a rain storm that nearly spoiled the inaugural test.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Aviation Week
Low-cost carriers are "very interested" in the 160-seat version of the Bombardier CS300 and a "fairly high percentage" of all potential customers are taking a look at the aircraft.
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GOVERNMENT NEWS
Friday, June 14, 2013
Bloomberg
The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee approved a $625 billion defense authorization measure for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, matching the amount requested by President Barack Obama's administration.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Defense News
Sequestration spending reductions will cut $15.8 billion from the US Defense Department's 2013 budget, according to a Pentagon report.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Defense News
Republicans and Democrats sparred for hours Wednesday over deep cuts to planned Pentagon spending before approving a nearly $513 billion military spending bill.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
National Journal
No one has been able to successfully wrangle Congress into reaching a grand bargain to reduce the deficit. But it's not for lack of trying.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Defense News
Pro-military House Republicans and Barack Obama, the Democratic president with whom they so often are at odds, have something in common after all. Neither side appears interested in voiding deep cuts to planned Pentagon spending in fiscal 2014.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
The Hill
Experts who closely follow the federal budget are dismissing President Obama's threat to veto appropriations bills as political gamesmanship that will end with the cuts from sequestration likely in place.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Federal News Radio
Washington-based experts who predicted that March would usher in the end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it appear to have miscalculated a tad: The unthinkable S (for sequester) has hit the fan. Yet most of us are still standing, if increasingly nervous.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Defense News
After years of not preparing for mandated sequestration spending cuts, the Pentagon is now incorporating different levels of budget reductions in its future planning.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Bloomberg
President Barack Obama has stopped worrying and learned to live with sequestration.
Friday, May 24, 2013
DoD Buzz
Improving the acquisition of weapons systems and platforms through cost-conscious strategies and more effective prototyping is a key part of the Defense Department's ongoing Strategic Choices Review, Pentagon leaders told an audience May 23 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C.
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MILITARY AVIATION
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Defense News
The Pentagon's top procurement official said the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is on track to significantly increase production rates in the fiscal 2015 budget.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Flight International
The Pentagon's tri-service F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is making progress towards completing its developmental phase and entering operational service with the US Air Force, US Navy and US Marine Corps, contractor Lockheed Martin says.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Aviation International News
Responding to a requirement of the Fiscal Year 2013 defense authorization act, U.S. military services declared their planned initial operational capability (IOC) dates for the three variants of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) on May 31.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Bloomberg
The House panel that approves defense funding has produced a draft budget that bankrolls all 29 F-35 jets that the Pentagon requested for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.
Monday, June 3, 2013
TIME
There has been a lot of good news for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter recently.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Defense News
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel wants to trim the fat across the Defense Department, and he's starting with his office at the Pentagon.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Reuters
America's newest warplane, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, will reach operational milestones in 2015 for the Marine Corps, 2016 for the Air Force and 2019 for the Navy, according to details formally provided to the U.S. Congress on Friday.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
DoD Buzz
The Marine Corps may join the Air Force in moving up its expected initial operating capability from 2016 to the latter part of 2015.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
DoD Buzz
The U.S. Air Force will inform Congress this week of when it plans to begin operational flights of the F-35 fighter jet, the service's top civilian said.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Defense News
Pratt & Whitney has signed a $1 billion contract for the fifth batch of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engines and expects to sign a sixth contract shortly, according to the company's head of military engines.
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POWER GENERATION
Monday, May 20, 2013
Power Engineering Magazine
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) completed the acquisition of Pratt & Whitney Power Systems. The new company will now be known as PW Power Systems.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Reuters
Renewable energy production and infrastructure are gaining investor appeal as they become less dependent on government support in more European markets, the asset management arm of insurer Allianz said on Thursday.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Center for American Progress
The United States currently generates 390 million tons of trash per year, or 7 pounds per person per day.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
CleanTechnica
The notorious Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant near Tonopah, Nevada passed another milestone this month, as workers finished placing receiver panels on top of a 540-foot tower that forms the centerpiece of the facility.
Friday, March 22, 2013
USA Today
For many years plasma systems have been recycling precious metals and an inert construction material from a wide range of spent catalysts.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Los Angeles Times
The state is No. 1 in areas such as venture capital funding for green technology, green tech patents and the growth in clean power generation, a group says.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Reuters
The European Union needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and increase the share of renewable energy to 30 percent by then, the executive European Commission said in a draft paper on new energy targets.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Waste Management World
Largo, Florida based GDT Tek, a specialist in the use of the use of the Organic Rankin Cycle principal to generate electricity has entered into an agreement in principal to purchase 100% of a landfill gas to energy company.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Bloomberg New Energy Finance
All eyes were on the US last week as President Barack Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
AOL Energy
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a rocket engine maker based in California, celebrated another milestone in its effort to conserve energy and reduce waste with the commissioning of United Technology Corp.'s first operational large (400kW) fuel cell in the San Fernando Valley.
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SPECIAL TOPICS
Monday, June 10, 2013
Reuters
Aerospace company GenCorp Inc has been given U.S. antitrust approval to buy rocket engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Aviation Week
U.S. defense contractors have been inconsistent in their presence at the Paris air show, but 2013 may hit a low mark not seen for many years.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Reuters
The EU created an international storm when it said it would impose its rules from January this year on all flights to and from its territory.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Reuters
Leaders of the multibillion-dollar global business aviation industry see signs of recovery from four years of recession, they said on Monday, but they appealed to governments to ease the way ahead by cutting taxes and red tape.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Waste Management World
Air Canada and Airbus have signed an agreement with BioFuelNet to help them find the most promising biofuels for aviation, and will research biofuels made using municipal solid waste and agricultural and forestry waste as feedstocks.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Hampton Roads Daily Press
In Hampton Roads, a jet engine may be the sound of freedom, but the contrail it leaves behind is nothing to salute.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Defense News
The United States on Tuesday eased rules on the export of select items in the aerospace industry in an effort to reduce regulations that are thought to be putting American firms at a disadvantage.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Aviation International News
With the rapid development of China's economy, business aviation is viewed by many in the country as a so-called "Blue Ocean industry" with vast potential.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
American Recycler
Since the 1950s, the old-fashion notion of "conservation" has expanded to be called "sustainability" and has become the buzzword synonymous with grand visions of environmental responsibility and lifestyle.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Aviation International News
With this year's Asian Business Association Conference & Exhibition now less than three weeks away, aircraft brokerage firm Asian Sky Group has released a comprehensive survey of the number and types of business jets operating in China.
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TOP STORIES
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Aviation International News
Pratt & Whitney CEO David Hess doesn’t spend time lamenting his company’s decision to forgo a bid for a place on Boeing’s proposed 777X.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Aviation International News
As Pratt & Whitney Canada saw revenues from its business jet engine segment suffer through one of the industry's steepest downturns in history, the company's highly diversified product line has allowed it to, as P&WC president John Saabas put it, "ride the wave" of fortune in other sectors and consolidate its leading position in the small engine business.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Air Transport World
Pratt & Whitney has entered the flight testing program with its PW1100G geared turbofan engine for the Airbus A320neo.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Flight International
First flight of the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G took off on 15 May, exactly as it was planned more than two years ago - and ended only moments ahead of a rain storm that nearly spoiled the inaugural test.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Hartford Courant
The latest engine to roll out of Pratt & Whitney just might deliver what the aerospace industry has sought in a commercial jet for more than a century — some peace and quiet.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Aviation Week
With the Paris air show less than a month away, we'll be paying close attention to the order books for the main new airframe programs.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Popular Science
All that was left on the carrier deck was a cloud of white steam wafting over a flight crew that was visibly bursting with excitement even with faces concealed behind bulky protective headgear, noise suppressing headsets, and darkly tinted goggles.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
The Globe and Mail
It's 4:30 on a rainy afternoon near the foot of Bathurst Street, and somewhere up above the drone of turboprop engines is getting louder.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Aviation International News
Pratt & Whitney CEO David Hess doesn't spend time lamenting his company's decision to forgo a bid for a place on Boeing's proposed 777X.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Air Transport World
Hawaiian Airlines has selected Pratt & Whitney 1000G geared turbofan engines to power its new fleet of Airbus A321neo aircraft.
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