article thumbnail

Alcoa unveils first aluminum alloy fan blade forging for jet engines; $1.1B supply agreement w/ Pratt & Whitney

Green Car Congress

billion agreement, Alcoa will supply key parts for Pratt & Whitney’s jet engines, including the forging for the first aluminum fan blade for jet engines. The forging was developed for Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower engines using an advanced aluminum alloy and a proprietary manufacturing process. Under a new 10-year, $1.1-billion

Supplies 218
article thumbnail

DOE releasing $20M in funding to ARPA-E awardees; NEXTCAR and REFUEL projects

Green Car Congress

Four REFUEL projects are also part of DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) programs, which support groundbreaking technological innovation specifically in the small business community. Giner, Inc.: High-Efficiency Ammonia Production from Water and Nitrogen – $1,500,000. .:

Wichita 170
article thumbnail

Alaska Airlines 737 May Have Left Boeing Factory Missing Bolts, N.T.S.B. Says

Baua Electric

The piece was manufactured in Malaysia in March and received by Spirit AeroSystems, a Boeing supplier in Wichita, Kan., There, the damaged rivets — which are often used to join and secure parts on planes — were flagged on Sept. Mr. Calhoun visited Spirit in Wichita. The N.T.S.B. that makes Max fuselages, in May, the report said.

Alaska 52
article thumbnail

‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality

Baua Electric

And in November, an engine on a just-delivered United Airlines 737 Max failed at 37,000 feet. There’s a lot of areas where things don’t seem to be put together right in the first place,” said Joe Jacobsen, an engineer and aviation safety expert who spent more than a decade at Boeing and more than 25 years at the F.A.A. But since Jan.

article thumbnail

NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

Green Car Congress

Cessna Aircraft Company-Cessna Citation, Wichita, Kan., The Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) award continues the work of the SUGAR (Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research) Project, which looked at truss-based wing aircraft designs and hybrid electric engine technology. million, three years. million, 27 months. El Segundo, Calif.,

Emissions 199
article thumbnail

National Drive Electric Week 2023 Recap: Let’s Give Them Something To Talk About

Plug in America

Disappointed but undeterred, we went to work and launched National Drive Elect ric Week (originally called National Plug In Day), thinking we would have had a better chance of coverage h ad our parade been part of a nationwide observance. Turns out we were right. ” In the limelight: E. .”

Golf Cart 106