The General Electric/Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance is set to close the Rolls-Royce Trent 900's market lead on the Airbus A380. The joint venture has received its first orders for the rival GP7000 ...

General Electric has ruled out a variant of the Engine Alliance GP7000 powerplant, which powers the A380, for the A350 XWB-1000. A GE spokesperson told ATWOnline yesterday that "it is not being ...

The General Electric-Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance completed initial testing of the GP7000 engine for the Airbus A380. Sea-level tests were conducted for a month at P&W's East Hartford, Conn., ...

One of the two engines selected to power the Airbus A380 Super Jumbo - the GP7000 produced by the GE/P&W Engine Alliance - will pass a major milestone next month when the first engine runs at Pratt & ...

Aerospace contractor Pratt & Whitney (P&W), ramping up production and testing of its GP7000 engine for the Airbus A380 double-decker jet program, is enjoying the benefits of reduced fabrication time ...

BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - The case for developing new engines for a sales-boosting upgrade to Airbus's A380 passenger jet has been called into question by a partner in one of the planemaker's engine ...