Pratt & Whitney is the American aerospace manufacturer that builds piston, turbojet, turbofan and gas turbine engines for civil and military aircraft, and it is the make under which the engines of this atlas from the Wasp radials to the F135 are grouped. It began in April 1925, when Frederick Rentschler and colleagues from Wright Aeronautical were lent US$250,000, the Pratt & Whitney name and space in Hartford, Connecticut, by the Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool company to build a large air-cooled radial engine designed by George Mead. That first engine, the 425-horsepower R-1340 Wasp, was completed on Christmas Eve 1925 and passed the US Navy qualification test in March 1926, after which the Navy ordered 200 by October 1926. The company later merged into United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, became United Aircraft Corporation in 1934 and United Technologies in 1975, and since 2020 it has been a subsidiary of RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon Technologies. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut, and it also makes gas turbines for industrial, marine and power generation use.
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In April 1925, Frederick Rentschler, an Ohio native and former executive at Wright Aeronautical, was determined to start an aviation-related business of his own.
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Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations.
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Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut.
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It was the Pratt & Whitney aircraft company's first engine, and the first of the famed Wasp series.
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Developed by Pratt & Whitney, 2,944 were produced from 1926 through 1942.
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The Pratt & Whitney J57 (company designation: JT3C) is an axial-flow turbojet engine developed by Pratt & Whitney in the early 1950s.
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It was Pratt & Whitney's first high-bypass-ratio turbofan.
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The Pratt & Whitney JT8D is a low-bypass (0.96 to 1) turbofan engine introduced by Pratt & Whitney in February 1963 with the inaugural flight of the Boeing 727.
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The Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp is an American air-cooled radial aircraft engine.
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The Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp is an American twin-row, 18-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine with a nominal displacement of 2,800 cu in (46 L), and is part of the long-lived Wasp family of engines.
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The Pratt & Whitney/Allison 578-DX was an experimental aircraft engine, a hybrid between a turbofan and a turboprop known as a propfan.
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The Pratt & Whitney J52 (company designation JT8A) is an axial-flow dual-spool turbojet engine originally designed for the United States Navy
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The Pratt & Whitney JT3D is an early turbofan aircraft engine derived from the Pratt & Whitney JT3C turbojet.
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The Pratt & Whitney J58 (company designation JT11D-20) is an American jet engine that powered the Lockheed A-12, and subsequently the YF-12 and the SR-71 aircraft.
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The Pratt & Whitney TF30 (company designation JTF10A) is a military low-bypass turbofan engine originally designed by Pratt & Whitney
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built by the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company from the 1930s to the 1950s
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It is one of the Pratt & Whitney Wasp series of radial engines.
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It was the last of the Pratt & Whitney Wasp family
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the J75 was essentially the bigger brother of the Pratt & Whitney J57 (JT3C)
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It was designed and manufactured by Pratt & Whitney
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is an afterburning turbofan engine developed by Pratt & Whitney
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The Pratt & Whitney F135 is an afterburning turbofan developed for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
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produced by Pratt & Whitney as the successor to the JT9D
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a family of high-bypass geared turbofan engines produced by Pratt & Whitney
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The Pratt & Whitney FT4 is an aero-derivative gas turbine engine
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The Pratt & Whitney R-1535 Twin Wasp Junior is an American aircraft engine developed in the 1930s.
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The Pratt & Whitney J48 (company designation JT7 Turbo-Wasp) is a turbojet engine developed by Pratt & Whitney as a license-built version of the Rolls-Royce Tay.
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The Pratt & Whitney JT12 (US military designation J60) is a small turbojet engine.
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The Pratt & Whitney PW2000, also known by the military designation F117 and initially referred to as the JT10D, is a series of high-bypass turbofan aircraft engines with a thrust range from 37,000 to 43,000 lbf (160 to 190 kN).
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The Pratt & Whitney PW6000 is a retired high-bypass turbofan jet engine designed for the Airbus A318 with a design thrust range of 18,000-24,000 lbf (80-107 kN).
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The Pratt & Whitney F401 (company designation JTF22) was an afterburning turbofan engine developed by Pratt & Whitney in tandem with the company's F100.
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The Pratt & Whitney T34 (company designation PT2 Turbo-Wasp) is an American axial flow turboprop engine designed and built by Pratt & Whitney.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW300 series is a family of turbofan jet engines developed by Pratt & Whitney Canada specifically for business jet applications.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW500 is a series of medium thrust turbofan engines designed specifically for business jet applications.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW800 is a series of turbofan engines in the 10,000-20,000 lbf (44-89 kN) thrust class, manufactured by Pratt & Whitney Canada.
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It is a division of the larger US-based Pratt & Whitney (P&W), itself a business unit of RTX Corporation.
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The Pratt & Whitney R-2060 Yellow Jacket was a liquid-cooled aircraft engine project developed for the United States Army in the early 1930s.
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The Pratt & Whitney X-1800 (later enlarged as the XH-2600) was an H-block aircraft engine project developed between 1938 and 1940, which was cancelled with only one example being built.
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The Pratt & Whitney T73 (company designation JFTD12) is a turboshaft engine.
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The Pratt & Whitney XT57 (company designation: PT5) was an axial-flow turboprop engine developed by Pratt & Whitney in the mid-1950s.
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