Pratt&Whitney PW6000 engine make first flight

Pratt&Whitney's newest engine - and the launch engine for Airbus' A318 100-passenger airliner - flew for the first time yesterday, a one hour and twenty minute flight on a Boeing 720 testbed. "We met all our objectives and the engine ran as well in the air it has been doing in ground based tests,"...

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