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F-35 engine blade fixed: United Technologies

WASHINGTON
Wed Dec 5, 2007 7:11pm EST
United Technologies Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Louis Chenevert briefs reporters on his global company which produces Pratt & Whitney jet engines, Sikorsky helicopters and elevator systems, at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit, in Washington, December 5, 2007. REUTERS/Mike Theiler

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Technologies Corp (UTX.N) said on Wednesday it had fixed a blade failure in its engine powering the first Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) F-35 fighters.

"We have new blades in production," President and Chief Operating Officer Louis Chenevert told the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit. "And we have returned to flight."

The problem was discovered in the third stage of an F135 test engine, built by United Technologies unit Pratt & Whitney, after an engine blade snapped off, Maj. Gen. Charles Davis, head of the Pentagon's F-35 program office, told the summit earlier on Wednesday.

Chenevert said the F-35 engine business was potentially worth tens of billions of dollars to Pratt & Whitney.

(For summit blog: summitnotebook.reuters.com/)

(Reporting by Jim Wolf; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)


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