The engine is basically of the same vintage as the P&W JT3D-3B and can be made to meet International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Stage III noise standards with the addition of a hush kit, but ...

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft began development of its first production turbofan, the JT3D, in the late 1950s, by taking advantage of the service-proven JT3 (J57) gas generator, and adding a two-stage ...

An effort to re-engine the U.S. Air Force's E-8C Joint STARS aircraft is languishing, apparently because bigger programs are edging it off the table. The battlefield surveillance plane, a modified ...