Posted on 12/02/2010 9:33:27 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Pratt & Whitney has unveiled a new cost-reduction goal as the F135 engine programme nears the end of a seven-year testing phase that was partly marred by cost overruns.
The 250th F135 delivered for the Lockheed Martin F-35 will match prices with the less powerful F119 installed on the Lockheed F-22, says Bennett Croswell, P&W vice-president of F135 and F119 engine programmes.
Croswell's pledge comes less than 18 months after P&W launched a "war on cost" because the joint programme office expressed concerns about creeping prices.
A key concern focused on the F135 programme's learning curve, a statistical model that predicts how efficiency improves as output rises. A 100% learning curve is a bad sign, meaning that efficiency is not improving.
(Excerpt) Read more at flightglobal.com ...
Good. Screw evil General Electric.
Would they be doing this if it wasn’t for the GE/Rolls second engine hanging over them? I doubt it.
I give up
how much do they cost?
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