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How to Recover from Tailplane Icing
by Ross Detwiler, Aviation Week Editor’s Note: The author’s long aviation career has included stints as a flight instructor, line pilot and chief pilot, during which he accumulated considerable time flying everything from the F-4 Phantom and C-5 Galaxy to Gulfstreams,...
Cadorath Engineering Inc. reaches DAO Status
Cadorath Engineering Inc. reaches new heights and becomes Canada’s latest Design Approval Organization Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – After three years of hard work, employees in Cadorath’s engineering and quality assurance departments are flying high. The company...
Pratt & Whitney Sees Bright Future in Additive Manufacturing
In the 1980s, Pratt & Whitney began working with additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D printing. Since then, the company has produced more than 100,000 prototype parts. Hundreds of those have been supporting the development of Pratt & Whitney's new engine...
PW1900G Engine Program Ready for Coming Milestones
W1900G Engine Program Ready for Coming Milestones (Wednesday, July 29, 2015). The team behind the PurePower® Geared Turbofan™ PW1900G engine has been busy hitting some high notes over the last few weeks.At the Paris Air Show, Pratt & Whitney announced that it had...
CBC's Marcy Markusa visits GLACIER
On February 26th 2015, Marcy Markusa visited the GLACIER Facility in Thompson, Manitoba. Markusa is a reporter for the CBC and co-host of the weekday morning radio show on CBC Radio One. Her article, Northern Manitoba facility to cold-test massive jet engine, recounts...
Award for TRM Leadership given to Kim Olson
This November, the Builder Award was given to Kim Olson, Senior Vice President at StandardAero, for his significant contributions to the Manitoba Aerospace Industry in several key roles. Kim is the Vice Chair of Canada’s newly launched national research network, the...
How the GLACIER Facility was built
In 2009, development began for a 150,00 lbf Gas Turbine Engine Icing Testing Facility in Thompson, Manitoba. "The facility, known as the Global Aerospace Centre for Icing and Environmental Research (GLACIER), provides icing certification tests for large aviation gas...
Higher-thrust Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine runs for first time
Tuesday, 15 July 2014 Rolls-Royce today announced the first run of its higher-thrust version of the Trent XWB, the world’s most efficient large civil aero engine. The 97,000lb-thrust Trent XWB-97 is the sole powerplant for the Airbus A350-1000 aircraft. The...
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