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777X Contest Prompts Pratt-Rolls Joint Venture Speculation
By Guy Norris
Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology
July 16, 2012
Guy Norris Farnborough
EDITOR'S NOTE: Aviation Week's video team was busy at Farnborough, recording the action and reporting on key commercial and military programs. Among the highlights in our Farnborough video library: An aggressive marketing campaign to sell the V-22 Osprey included daily flights of the tiltrotor at the air show.
Abandoning a 28-year policy of not participating in flying demonstrations at air shows, Boeing showed off a 787 scheduled to be delivered to Qatar Airways. Saab promoted its new maritime surveillance aircraft just a month after unveiling its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform based on the Saab 340 turboprop. Check out these videos and more in the digital edition of Aviation Week on leading tablets and smartphones, or go toAviationWeek.com/Farnborough.
Facing huge development costs and a tightly contested market, engine makers have sometimes made archrivals into partners in efforts to compete across an expanding thrust range.
The establishment of CFM and International Aero Engines (IAE) in the 1970s and 1980s set the scene for the mid-thrust battles of the last three decades, but it was the teaming of General Electric and Pratt & Whitney 16 years ago that rocked the aerospace world. To the general astonishment of the industry at the time, the two former adversaries buried the hatchet to partner on an engine development called the GP7000.
By Guy Norris
Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology
July 16, 2012
Guy Norris Farnborough
EDITOR'S NOTE: Aviation Week's video team was busy at Farnborough, recording the action and reporting on key commercial and military programs. Among the highlights in our Farnborough video library: An aggressive marketing campaign to sell the V-22 Osprey included daily flights of the tiltrotor at the air show.
Abandoning a 28-year policy of not participating in flying demonstrations at air shows, Boeing showed off a 787 scheduled to be delivered to Qatar Airways. Saab promoted its new maritime surveillance aircraft just a month after unveiling its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform based on the Saab 340 turboprop. Check out these videos and more in the digital edition of Aviation Week on leading tablets and smartphones, or go toAviationWeek.com/Farnborough.
Facing huge development costs and a tightly contested market, engine makers have sometimes made archrivals into partners in efforts to compete across an expanding thrust range.
The establishment of CFM and International Aero Engines (IAE) in the 1970s and 1980s set the scene for the mid-thrust battles of the last three decades, but it was the teaming of General Electric and Pratt & Whitney 16 years ago that rocked the aerospace world. To the general astonishment of the industry at the time, the two former adversaries buried the hatchet to partner on an engine development called the GP7000.
