GE has its nose so far up Obama’s arse, that the Israelis would never do business with them, IMHO.
Posted on 10/15/2010 3:49:35 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
An announced engine selection for Israel's first batch of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters has sparked a new dispute between both rival manufacturers.
Pratt & Whitney says the company has received a verbal commitment by Israel to buy the F135 engine to power the first batch of 20 F-35s ordered under a $2.75 billion agreement signed last week.
The General Electric/Rolls-Royce team developing the F136 alternate engine claims the selection process remains ongoing. "We fully anticipate we will have an opportunity to compete with the F136" in Israel, GE says.
The controversy leaves in doubt the first potential engine selection by a non-US F-35 customer for production-phase aircraft.
P&W claims the timing of Israel's order is critical, with only one production engine available to meet the customer's scheduled entry into service in 2015. The F136, however, is on track to become operational on US-owned F-35s in 2013. "We will definitely have an engine ready when [Israel] wants it," GE says.
P&W says that it was the only engine manufacturer invited to the ceremony in New York where Israeli officials signed the letter of offer and acceptance to commit to the fighter purchase. "The other guys weren't there," a company source says.
Moreover, the F135-maker also notes that it has sold engines to Israel since 1947 and the company's engines currently power all of the country's fixed-wing combat jets.
GE, however, says F136 representatives delivered a briefing about the F-35 programme's alternate engine in Israel earlier this week at the invitation of the government in Tel Aviv.
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As someone who competed against GE @ the Eagle, I hope they lose (no I do not speak for P & W ) they play dirty and I hope they fail in their bid.
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GE has its nose so far up Obama’s arse, that the Israelis would never do business with them, IMHO.
I agree. The Pratt and Whitney is the better engine.
My SIL works in engineering on the RR version.
Tell me why they’re deficient - I love to talk engineering with him.
I bet Obama and his leftist poggies are trying to pressure the Israelis to buy GE. It’s the thuggy way of the Obama fascists.
In b-school, I had a case study on a GE engine part manufacture - the thermosensor harness, iirc.
One of the guys in the class said he had worked at that particularly facility and said the Harvard Business School case writer blew through really didn’t take any time to get in to the details.
The bottom line is that it was a union shop, and the workers got paid more for “repairing” harnesses that didn’t pass inspection.
So, there was a constant “supply” of harnesses that needed to be reworked.
Obviously, the union was opposed to “fixing” the “problem” to get to zero defects the first time through the line.
Different from the dedication I heard from buds in Assembly @ Pratt. they kabitzed about every detail, profectionist for sure.
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