{"id":194723,"date":"2008-08-23T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/23\/pratt-and-whitney-moves-gtf-tests-to-a340\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:20:00","slug":"pratt-and-whitney-moves-gtf-tests-to-a340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/23\/pratt-and-whitney-moves-gtf-tests-to-a340\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratt and Whitney Moves  GTF Tests to A340"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The testing is actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/19\/314810\/pw-completes-gtf-tests-on-747sp-readies-for-a340-trial.html\">a big more than a marketing gimmick<\/a>, because the original test aircraft, a Boeing 747 SP used old noisy engines, and as such acoustic data for the Geared Turbo Fan was hard to get, though I&#8217;m sure that working with Airbus on this will help in future sales.<\/p>\n<p>They are claiming a  &#8220;near double-digit&#8221; improvement in fuel economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The testing is actually a big more than a marketing gimmick, because the original test aircraft, a Boeing 747 SP used old noisy engines, and as such acoustic data for the Geared Turbo Fan was hard to get, though I&#8217;m sure that working with Airbus on this will help in future sales. They are claiming &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}