F135 Fan Investigation

Pratt & Whitney says flutter has been ruled out as an early cause of the F135 fan failure that developed in the first stage of the Joint Strike Fighter engine's three-stage unit during ground tests in Florida on Dec. 23. The fan crack occurred during accelerated mission tests on ground engine FX648...

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