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Collins Aerospace: EPACS PTMS for F-35 Will Provide More Than Twice the Current Cooling

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, June 28th, 2023

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Collins Aerospace: EPACS PTMS for F-35 Will Provide More Than Twice the Current Cooling

Members of the 544th Propulsion Maintenance Squadron's F135 Heavy Maintenance Center pose with the Robert T. Mason Award trophy at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex in January

Raytheon Technologies' [RTX] Collins Aerospace said last week at the Paris Air Show that it has conducted a lab test in Windsor Locks, Conn., of the Enhanced Power and Cooling System (EPACS) that Collins Aerospace plans to offer as a Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS) replacement for the Honeywell [HON] PTMS now carried on the Raytheon Pratt and Whitney F135 engine that powers the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter. EPACS, which includes a Collins Aerospace air cycle system, electric…

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