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Pratt & Whitney To Develop Advanced Turbine For Army Rotorcraft

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

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Pratt & Whitney [UTX] yesterday said it has been awarded an Army contract to research and develop an Advanced Variable-Speed Power Turbine (AVSPOT) to meet the range and lift requirements for current and future force rotorcraft. The AVSPOT program is an initiative by the Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate, in collaboration with NASA, to develop turbine technology that improves performance, efficiency, and affordability of rotorcraft engines, and to validate that technology in a laboratory environment by 2016. Although future mission…

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