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Pratt & Whitney routinely spends eight
or nine percent of its revenues on research
and development.
Pratt & Whitney Gears Up for New Single-Aisle Engine
Noise Reduction, Winglets
P&W’s Steve Heath. May Lead to Rebranding the MD-80
www.AviationNow.com Sponsored by Pratt & Whitney April 2005
The MD-80 fleet could be revived by infusion of new technology.
Pratt & Whitney wants to breathe new life into the MD-80 family
of airliners, now amongst the noisiest and least fuel efficient of
those out there. That way it can prolong the service life (and
maintenance revenue) of some 5,000 JT8D engines on the
2,500 or so aircraft in service.
“The airplane needs rebranding,” says Steve Heath, president
of commercial engines at Pratt & Whitney. “You can make
it look like today’s new regional aircraft if you give it winglets
and quieten the engines to be Stage 4 compliant.”
Wishful thinking? Not at all. Pratt spent several years developing
a noise reduction unit and has licensed it to Aviation Fleet
Solutions of Renton, Washington, which will obtain an STC later
this year. Prospective launch customers are GECAS and SAS.
“Winglets on the aircraft could also bring savings in fuel
burn,” says Heath. “You could wrap a fixed price maintenance
contract around the whole aircraft, maybe bring in a financial
institution and offer a complete package.”
The PW6000 powers the Airbus A318 airliner.
MROa Competitive Edge
in Winning Engine Deals
Pratt &Whitney MRO
Long-term support contracts
have become crucial in winning
military engine competitions
following four highly visible
programs at Pratt & Whitney,
according to executives there.
“When I go to war I want to
launch at will. I’m going to be
trusting someone else—can that
really work?
“We’ve proven that indeed it
can,” says Gen. (Ret) Lloyd
“Fig” Newton,
evp for military
engines at Pratt.
Air force chiefs
around the world
have noted the
success of Boeing
and Pratt &
Whitney (with
partner United
Airlines) in supporting
the readiness of the
C-17 Globemaster III both in
peace and in war. They have
watched as the USAF made
Pratt the sole depot for the
F100-PW-229 that powers the
F-16C/D and F-15E fighters,
and as Pratt and the USAF won
the prestigious Aviation Week
Ryan Award for their innovative
public-private partnership on
F100 and F119 engines at the
Oklahoma City Air Logistics
Center, Tinker Air Force Base.
Then Pratt showed fleet
management could work with a
foreign customer when the
Italian Air Force signed a
$45 million thrust-by-the-hour
support deal for the fleet of
F-16s it is leasing from the U.S.
P&W provides complete support
of the engines in the
intermediate engine shop, and
depot level maintenance.
Material, technical support,
repair and program management
are all handled by Pratt.
Newton hails the win as a
strategic milestone for Pratt as a
fleet management provider for
military aircraft.
“We expect the
contract with
Italy will be followed
in several
campaigns now
under way internationally,”
says
Kevin Trammel,
director of business
development
for Pratt military engines.
“We’ve got one campaign
going on right now wherethey
have asked for a support
package under no fewer than 36
different scenarios,” he notes.
These range from traditional
supply of spare parts
to complete fleet
management, with
different prices for an
85% to 95% range of
readiness.
“This shows the
customer is very
aware of what he is
buying,” Trammel adds.
Says Newton, “We’re beginning
to see an incredibly
powerful alignment of forces.
“They want engines to stay
on that aircraft and be ready
when they walk out to the flight
line, and that’s exactly what
we want. That changes the
paradigm: you start buying
performance, not parts and
maintenance.”
P&W’s “Fig” Newton.
Military Sees Benefits
Of MRO Partnerships
The new PW600 turbofan for
Very Light Jets is proving to be
as radical in its maintenance as
in every other area where it is
breaking new ground.
The engine is very low cost
(you get two on a $1.3 million
　
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