Agreement is aircraft lessor's first direct GTF engine order LONDON, July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Farnborough Air Show - Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, announced today that Avolon has selected GTF engines to power 80 Airbus A320neo family aircraft. The order means Avolon will have 158 GTF-powered aircraft in its delivered and committed fleet, with options for engines to power 80 additional aircraft.This order represents one of Pratt & Whitney's largest transactions with a lessor for its GTF ...

RTX tests StormBreaker across four separate platforms, with three services, for 28 total flight tests in 2023 LONDON, July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Farnborough Air Show — Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business announced 28 tests of its StormBreaker® smart weapon in 2023, including a 100 percent success rate on 14 of 14 planned jettisons from the F-35C. The additional 14 tests throughout the year included employment from the F/A-18E/F, F-15E, and F-35B across the U.S. Navy, Marines, and Air Force."Service-mem ...

Largest aircraft order in Philippine aviation history LONDON, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Farnborough Air Show – Cebu Pacific (CEB), Airbus, and Pratt & Whitney, held an official ceremony to commemorate a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed for CEB's purchase of up to 152 A321neo aircraft for estimated USD $24 billion (PHP 1.4 trillion) based on list prices, the largest aircraft order in Philippine aviation history. Pratt & Whitney is an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business.The binding MOU covers firm orders for ...

Major milestone speeds up UK's adoption of laser technology LONDON, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon UK, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) have successfully tested Raytheon's High-Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS) integrated onto a British Army combat vehicle, the first test of its kind in the UK. This ground-breaking test, conducted at Dstl's range in Porton Down, saw the laser weapon fired at full power whilst integrated onto a British Army Wo ...

One of the largest GTF engine lessors now owns, manages, and has firm commitments for 142 GTF-powered aircraft LONDON, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Farnborough Air Show  — Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, today announced SMBC Aviation Capital, one of the largest lessors for GTF- powered A320neo family aircraft, has exercised options for 22 firm orders. This is supplemental to a 2021 order for 20 additional firm aircraft, bringing the lessor's additional commitment to 42 firm A320neo family ai ...

Hybrid-electric propulsion technology has potential to increase efficiency and reduce emissions for future aircraft applicationsLONDON, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Farnborough Air Show — RTX (NYSE: RTX) today announced the completion of the preliminary design review for the hybrid-electric propulsion demonstrator engine being developed as part of the SWITCH project, supported by the European Union's Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking (Clean Aviation). By combining two Collins Aerospace megawatt-class electr ...

Program aims to develop new high-voltage distribution technologies for future hybrid-electric aircraft LONDON, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Farnborough Air Show — Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, today announced the European Union's Clean Aviation HECATE project has achieved Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The HECATE consortium is comprised of multiple European aerospace industry partners, including Collins, Safran, Airbus Defence and Space, Leonardo and several universities. Collins, throu ...

文章核心观点 - 公司已成功验证了混合动力STEP-Tech演示器的热机、发电机、电池系统和推进器之间的能量传输[1][2][3][4] - STEP-Tech是一个模块化的演示项目,旨在为100-500kW级别的分布式推进概念进行原型制作,并可扩展至1MW及以上[2] - 这些混合动力架构对于支持航空业实现减碳和更可持续飞行的目标至关重要[3] 公司相关 - 公司拥有超过18.5万名全球员工,通过旗下的柯林斯航空、普惠动力和雷神等行业领先业务,在航空、集成国防系统和下一代技术解决方案等领域取得进步[6] - 公司2023年销售额为690亿美元,总部位于弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿[6] 行业相关 - 公司的其他混合动力演示项目,如RTX混合动力飞行演示器和SWITCH项目,针对从先进空中出行到大型商用飞机等各类未来飞机应用[5] - 这些新型混合动力架构对于实现航空业减碳和更可持续飞行的目标至关重要[3]

Project aims to demonstrate a fuel efficiency improvement of up to 30% compared to a conventional H145LONDON, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Farnborough Air Show – Pratt & Whitney Canada and Collins Aerospace, businesses of RTX (NYSE: RTX), have been selected by Airbus Helicopters to support the development of a hybrid-electric propulsion system for its PioneerLab technology demonstrator. Based on a twin-engine H145 helicopter, PioneerLab aims to demonstrate the potential of hybrid-electric propulsion as wel ...

Swiss shop becomes the 17th active facility in growing GTF MRO networkEAST HARTFORD, Conn., July 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, and SR Technics announced today the induction of the first Pratt & Whitney GTF™ engine at the MRO service provider's Zurich-based facility. SR Technics will provide full disassembly, assembly and test capability for the PW1100G-JM engine for the Airbus A320neo aircraft family."Today, we extend our relationship with SR Technics, which began 35 ...