{"id":195161,"date":"2008-07-26T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/26\/airbus-says-a320-w-gtf-could-be-ready-in-30-months\/"},"modified":"2008-07-26T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T10:22:00","slug":"airbus-says-a320-w-gtf-could-be-ready-in-30-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/26\/airbus-says-a320-w-gtf-could-be-ready-in-30-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Says A320 W\/GTF Could Be Ready in 30 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are saying that it would take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/21\/225886\/gtf-powered-a320-would-take-two-and-half-years-to-develop.html\">two and half years to integrate P&amp;W&#8217;s geared turbofan into the A320<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The end date would depend on when they started, and at this point, a stumbling block would be that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/21\/225898\/p.html\">P&amp;W is not releasing maintenance costs specifics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When one considers the fact that what killed Thielert was the frequency of maintenance,  and that the primary concern over the GTF is maintenance, so I would not expect any effort to integrate the engine until Pratt &amp; Whitney either gives some guarantees, or there is some data on the wing in commercial service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are saying that it would take two and half years to integrate P&amp;W&#8217;s geared turbofan into the A320. The end date would depend on when they started, and at this point, a stumbling block would be that P&amp;W is not releasing maintenance costs specifics. When one considers the fact that what killed Thielert was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195161"}],"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=195161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}