P&W fights US government criticisms of F-35 engine reliability

By 2015-04-30T03:04:21

F135 engine

Pratt & Whitney’s F135 fighter engine that powers the Lockheed Martin F-35 is the target of two new US government reports criticising the propulsion system’s “very poor” reliability and 61 nonconformities with P&W’s own and the Department of Defense’s (DOD) quality management procedures.

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