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Pratt & Whitney, From Secret Project Suntan To The J58 That Powered The Blackbird, To Space. PART 1 

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The history of Pratt & Whitney, starting with the secret project "Suntan", to the J58 turbojet that powered Skunk Works SR-71/A-12 Blackbird, to the F100 turbojet, all the way to space, PART 1.
PART 2: • Pratt & Whitney, From ...
The video covers 40 years, from the mid-50s to the end of the 90s, some of the most remarkable times of this U.S.-based company.
Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies). Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially airlines) and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut. The company is the world's second-largest commercial aircraft engine manufacturer, with a 35% market share as of 2020. In addition to aircraft engines, Pratt & Whitney manufactures gas turbine engines for industrial use, marine propulsion, and power generation. In 2017, the company reported that it supported more than 11,000 customers in 180 countries worldwide.
In April 1925, Frederick Rentschler, an Ohio native and former executive at Wright Aeronautical, was determined to start an aviation-related business of his own. His social network included Edward Deeds, another prominent Ohioan of the early aviation industry, and Frederick's brother Gordon Rentschler, both of whom were on the board of Niles Bement Pond, then one of the largest machine tool corporations in the world. Frederick Rentschler approached these men as he sought capital and assets for his new venture. Deeds and G. Rentschler persuaded the board of Niles Bement Pond that their Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool (P&WMT) subsidiary of Hartford, Connecticut, should provide the funding and location to build a new aircraft engine being developed by Rentschler, George J. Mead, and colleagues, all formerly of Wright Aeronautical. Conceived and designed by Mead, the new engine would be a large, air-cooled, radial design. Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool was going through a period of self-revision at the time to prepare itself for the post-World War I era, discontinuing old product lines and incubating new ones. World War I had been profitable to P&WMT, but the peace brought a predictable glut to the machine tool market, as contracts with governments were canceled and the market in used, recently built tools competed against new ones. P&WMT's future growth would depend on innovation. Having idle factory space and capital available at this historical moment, to be invested wherever good return seemed available, P&WMT saw the post-war aviation industry, both military and civil (commercial, private), as one with some of the greatest growth and development potential available anywhere for the next few decades. It lent Rentschler US$250,000, the use of the Pratt & Whitney name, and space in their building. This was the beginning of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's first engine, the 425 horsepower (317 kW) R-1340 Wasp, was completed on Christmas Eve 1925. On its third test run it easily passed the U.S. Navy qualification test in March 1926; by October 1926, the U.S. Navy had ordered 200. The Wasp exhibited performance and reliability that revolutionized American aviation. The R-1340 powered the aircraft of Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart, and many other record flights.
The R-1340 was followed by another very successful engine, the R-985 Wasp Junior. Eventually, a whole Wasp series was developed. Both engines are still in use in agricultural aircraft around the world and produce more power than their original design criteria.
George Mead soon led the next step in the field of large, state-of-the-art, air-cooled, radial aircraft engines (which the Wasp dominated) when Pratt & Whitney released its R-1690 Hornet. It was basically "a bigger Wasp".
In 1929, Rentschler ended his association with Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool and merged Pratt & Whitney Aircraft with Boeing and other companies to form the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation (UATC). His agreement allowed him to carry the Pratt & Whitney name with him to his new corporation. Only five years later, in 1934, the federal government of the U.S. banned common ownership of airplane manufacturers and airlines. Pratt & Whitney was merged with UATC's other manufacturing interests east of the Mississippi River as United Aircraft Corporation, with Rentschler as president. In 1975, United Aircraft Corporation became United Technologies.
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@Dronescapes
@Dronescapes 2 месяца назад
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@joemoore4027
@joemoore4027 2 месяца назад
I worked as an A&P for 35 years and P&W was a great engine from radials to jet engines.
@FahlbeckIII
@FahlbeckIII 2 месяца назад
I live next to Pratt and Whitney and have worked there. Awesome little museum there in East Hartford. Great video
@Dronescapes
@Dronescapes 2 месяца назад
Very cool
@silentseawolf
@silentseawolf 2 месяца назад
Thank you for these long form vids
@williampomplun6750
@williampomplun6750 2 месяца назад
I worked for P&W for 16 1/2 years. I repaired the Intermediate Case (HEART OF THE ENGINE) and other Turbine Cases. I machined Exotic metals and held tolerances of +/- 0.0003. One customer welded the A bore of the 90° towershaft bores and couldn't machine it back to position. I had made tooling, and setup the case and used a 90° head to machine the face within 0.005 from finished position squared perfectly. I enjoyed working P&W but was laid-off in 2005. Between P&W and CHROMALOY EDM of TEXAS making repairs to air seals, and manufacture new for cruise missiles. When I started at Chromaloy the Airseal department was losing money. I was Supervision position taking the department into the BLACK with $750,000 in monthly sales. Aircraft contracts are FEAST and FAMINE.
@neilfoss8406
@neilfoss8406 2 месяца назад
Your skills were essential to these nationally important projects. Thank you for your contribution to our security
@williampomplun6750
@williampomplun6750 2 месяца назад
@neilfoss8406 I appreciate your considerate response. I am a 4th generation of Machinist in my family. My Great Grandfather came to the United States via Ellis Island after the FRANCO/PRUSSIAN WAR in the late 1890's. "SPONSORED" by family members working on the Pullman Cars for the RailRoad. My Grandfather was Machinist in the Navy, and worked the Steam engines in Buffalo, NY. The Gold Metal flour Company had large Grain Steamers in the Great Lakes from silos to the Mills. My Father worked as Aerospace Machinist for many of the Aircraft Companies, LTV, BELL HELICOPTER, NORTHROP GRUMMAN, ROCKWELL, and BOEING AIRCRAFT where he retired. He had experience in AIRFORCE, ARMY, and Retired Navy.
@dennisboulais7905
@dennisboulais7905 2 месяца назад
I worked for them as a senior draftsman at Middletown Connecticut site on the JT9D engine for the Boeing 747 in 1969.
@jayjones6904
@jayjones6904 2 месяца назад
Neighbor retired from pw started in 90s
@Chris_at_Home
@Chris_at_Home 2 месяца назад
My Dad worked there in tool design starting about then for the JT-9 till he retired in the mid70s. Before that he worked on the fuel cell for the Apollo. He also spent a year working in W Palm in 1962. Both my wife’s and my Dads and oldest brothers retired from P&WA. I worked on the assembly floor there for a few years in the late 70s but moved to Alaska to work on electronics.
@Xsiondu
@Xsiondu 2 месяца назад
Oh you have got to tell us what was the mood of your company while all the teething pains were getting worked out on those engines for the 747. I recall watching a documentary where Boeing was saying the engines always failed and p&w Said that it wasn't possible. Then the chief test pilot took a p&w exec on a test flight and blew up 3 engines during the flight and was going to throttle up the last remaining engine and cause it to fail as well. Then the p&w exec Said that they would get it figured out. It was a bearing assy defect according to the story. The test pilot was telling the interviewer for the doc that p&w identified the root cause and created a solution and the engines were beyond rock solid from that point on
@williampomplun6750
@williampomplun6750 2 месяца назад
I was just a kid when my Dad worked at Barksdale AirForce Base for Boeing Aircraft Company repairing the B-52's during Vietnam War. In transit, SR71 flew into Barksdale AirForce Base and went directly into a secured hanger with Guards posted outside. We knew when they left by the "sonic boomb" and our woodframed windows would rattled. We lived 35 miles from the base.
@silverdrillpickle7596
@silverdrillpickle7596 2 месяца назад
Awesome narration by Bill Lyman
@tnekkc
@tnekkc 2 месяца назад
In 2006 in a bunker we were trying to make a tiny prat whit jet engine start. A french canadian engineering supervisor yelled in my face, " YOU YOU GENERAL DYNAMICS ENGINEERS ARE SOOO STUPID!" and then he puffed out his cheeks. I don't know what that gesture meant, but from context, he was giving me the finger.
@Xsiondu
@Xsiondu 2 месяца назад
Ohh such a beast of an engine
@wmffmw1854
@wmffmw1854 2 месяца назад
P&W was having trouble with micro-cracks in their F-100 production engines for Grumman's F-14. When P&W could not figure out a fix my father went in to evaluate them for failure to meet contract requirements and shut production down. Ultimately it was his recommendation that the problems were solvable in time to meet milestones. Dad was the F-14 Project Manager and Flight Test Program Manager for Grumman. He invented the specific procedures and test methods, a form of magna-fluxing, for Forging and Testing Titanium Turbine blades in a production environment. This allowed P&W to find micro-cracks in production volumes. These cracks would not grow to detectable size until several hundred hours of engine operation and had not been detected in earlier test methods.
@Dronescapes
@Dronescapes 2 месяца назад
Thanks for sharing, and feel free to tell us more. It is very interesting
@wmffmw1854
@wmffmw1854 2 месяца назад
The Bee Line Express Way SR-528, goes from Cape Canaveral to Orlando. The road you want is Alligator Alley in the Everglades.
@SeniorDrummer
@SeniorDrummer 2 месяца назад
No, I'm a big fan of docs like this !
@echoromeo384
@echoromeo384 2 месяца назад
I live about 4 miles from pratt and Whitney and paving beeline I saw some crazy helicopters.
@rcman4.2flyboy
@rcman4.2flyboy 2 месяца назад
Good one 😂
@williampomplun6750
@williampomplun6750 2 месяца назад
With ALL of my life experiences with P&W is GOD ALMIGHTY BLESSINGS. I'm a 5th generation machinist
@mpetry912
@mpetry912 2 месяца назад
great story. challenging to get these vids
@williampomplun6750
@williampomplun6750 2 месяца назад
Ive repaired J-79, JT9D, JT8D, JT8D-200, RB211,CF6, CF6-50, CFM, AND SEVERAL OTHERS, like Lycoming.
@wmffmw1854
@wmffmw1854 2 месяца назад
We lived in Cocoa Beach in the 60's, now in Daytona. The Bee Line Express Way SR-528, goes from Cape Canaveral to Orlando. The road you want is the Alligator Alley SR-84 in the Everglades.
@uberdang830
@uberdang830 2 месяца назад
Fitting that it was called project suntan because thats what you got when you observed the exhaust plume.
@javierrflores
@javierrflores 2 месяца назад
Great content
@steve-real
@steve-real 2 месяца назад
Super interesting
@user-se2pq4xq6s
@user-se2pq4xq6s 2 месяца назад
To the sky ===== and beyond.
@Bob-yl9pm
@Bob-yl9pm 2 месяца назад
What we have here is an oxygen breathing rocket engine! 🙂
@SuperDd40
@SuperDd40 2 месяца назад
I don't know if i'm watching a documentary or playing Fallout 😉😉🤣.
@user-cc1rr7lg7x
@user-cc1rr7lg7x 2 месяца назад
Ina small town nearby they have a black bird hanging in their display they also have an engine from the Saturn V Rocket out front and you can stand underneath it it is a real wooly mammoth of a motor.
@CS_247
@CS_247 2 месяца назад
I wondered what the bark of the v8s was, then realised it was the start carts!
@Trump145
@Trump145 Месяц назад
I enjoyed it
@user-en7un3ln1b
@user-en7un3ln1b 2 месяца назад
Im watching
@beaversixniner
@beaversixniner 2 месяца назад
Am I the only one watching this?
@pierrelenormand1762
@pierrelenormand1762 2 месяца назад
No you are not :)
@marcuswilliams8627
@marcuswilliams8627 2 месяца назад
No
@rickyrico80
@rickyrico80 2 месяца назад
Yes
@ffrench100
@ffrench100 2 месяца назад
No dear
@Xsiondu
@Xsiondu 2 месяца назад
Yes
@ingoos
@ingoos 2 месяца назад
@10:29 "operated by Pan Am..."
@LeonardojavierMellaretamal
@LeonardojavierMellaretamal 2 месяца назад
❤❤❤❤ Leonardo Javier Chile
@Dronescapes
@Dronescapes 2 месяца назад
Thank you Leonardo!
@joyceperez5505
@joyceperez5505 2 месяца назад
NO..OF COARSE NOT SILLY!!!IM A GRANDMA RETIRED NAVY NURSE. ( 1972-1976. ). I LOVE TO LEARN LOTS OF THIS TO DO WITH METALS. ..I LIKE IRON WORK. DEVELP.T.. BUILDING. MY MINISTRY AND YOUTH CARE CENTERS...ETC...Y GRANDFATHER WAS AN ENGINEER... DESIGNED , 😂BUILT, AND SOLD HUGE MAZCHINES...
@raguilard
@raguilard 2 месяца назад
Why don't we tell the world about how things are built
@tbone1780
@tbone1780 2 месяца назад
China already has the Blueprints and is manufacturing.
@alaxn542yyggghbhbbbbbbbnnj
@alaxn542yyggghbhbbbbbbbnnj 28 дней назад
I worked at p@w I contributed from 1962 to 1968. I cleaned the urinals of the men's toilet and refill thise cakes things in the middle of the urinals
@medennis3467
@medennis3467 2 месяца назад
Umm, 90 min of info but barely covering the J58. WTH?
@gordonanderson3111
@gordonanderson3111 2 месяца назад
"Hey how come you didn't tell me this?" 'Well, it was all above top secret - so no one ever knew.' would have been the correct answer. On the placard in front of the A-12 single seater at our local Jet Aircraft Museum at MSP, it said this one with the special vent bathing the windscreen in liquid Oxygen to cool it, reached 2,368mph at 92,000 feet. BUT when i used what i learned being inside this fastest of all our airframes, to design a carbon even blacker blackbird, with engines running on H2 & O2, so it was faster and exhausted pure water, like duh, our VP Chainey made the program secret again, CIA contractors came to cut it up 9in a raging blizzard even) and take it to CIA HQ where it now stands in their courtyard. Then naturally people were sent to silence me perm. with extreme prejudice and it is a miracle I AM alive {and have put drawings of this new 'HOPE' super warplane online!}
@daveparsons1701
@daveparsons1701 2 месяца назад
No, you are not🙂 fascinating history here in Longmont, Colorado
@KingPantocrator
@KingPantocrator 2 месяца назад
"...Sputnik, merely the size of a sooker ball" ...proceed to show a picture of it being actually larger than a beach ball at 1:20
@Jack-bs6zb
@Jack-bs6zb 2 месяца назад
Mig 15 used a reverse engineered Rolls Royce Nene engine. … ha ha
@Dronescapes
@Dronescapes 2 месяца назад
It get much more interesting than that. The RR "Nene" engine was none other than a variant of Whittle's invention (the first turbojet). That same engine, together with Whittle, under a false name, were shipped to the U.S. in great secrecy in 1941, to General Electric. A variant of his engine became, in 1942, the first jet engine to power an aircraft on U.S. soil, the Bell XP-59. It also became the first turbojet to power an operational U.S. jet fighter, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. The people in charge of adapting Whittle's engine were called the "Hush Hush Boys", and General Electric not only celebrates Whittle to this day, but has also some interesting articles about the secret project. Even more interestingly, Whittle's engine was also the base for Pratt & Whitney's first turbojet! The irony of it all is that initially the MiG-15 fought the Lockheed P-80 in Korea (with the MiG having the upper hand), but both had an engine derived from Whittle's. As predicted by Whittle, eventually the axial turbojet would take over, but his centrifugal turbojet made a mark in history for a variety of reasons: it was the first turbojet to work in April 1937, a centrifugal turbojet actually powered the first German flight, the famous He 178 (Von Ohain had full access to Whittle's work, which tragically wasn't secreted by the British government), it powered a few military jets, in various nations around the world, but also the first passenger jet, the Comet. In the mid 50s the Brits finally perfected the axial flow engine they had been working on for decades, and that took over. The German turbojets were all but forgotten and ignored, as they were utterly unreliable, with the exception of the French, who assembled a platoon of Nazi scientists (Groupe "O") to make it a viable engine. It took them years, and radical modifications, but also the help (joint venture) of a U.S. company to finally make it a viable engine. The Soviets, after the end of WW2 opted to clone Whittle's engine after testing and trashing all variants of the German turbojets, also followed by the Czech AirForce, which had been assembling Me 262s during the war, but had also to give up hope because of all the limitations of the engine.
@Jack-bs6zb
@Jack-bs6zb 2 месяца назад
@@Dronescapes ... thank you. I was aware of some of this. A story i heard related to a visit by the Soviets to a British aero engine factory (possibly Rolls Royce or Bristol) during which the visitors deliberately walked on swarf from a machine tool to collect metal for later analysis.
@johnfields4414
@johnfields4414 2 месяца назад
ads every 3 minutes. not funny.
@Dronescapes
@Dronescapes 2 месяца назад
Perhas you are not aware that if you have RU-vid Premium, you will never see an ad again, among the several benefits. Perhaps you want to look into that.
@superunknown69420
@superunknown69420 2 месяца назад
​@@Dronescapes nope. Ill be leaving youtube instead. Ad frequency has become a joke.
@arcmonk8743
@arcmonk8743 2 месяца назад
@@superunknown69420 look up ultimate ad blocker. please, no need to thanks
@dewiz9596
@dewiz9596 2 месяца назад
@@superunknown69420Whereever you end up, I hope you’ll be happy. But I doubt it.
@icebluecuda1
@icebluecuda1 2 месяца назад
JT9D, J79, and the current GTF engines are trash. They almost broke Boeing, killed a lot of pilots, and are crushing airlines, respectively.
@jupitercyclops6521
@jupitercyclops6521 2 месяца назад
Boeing is killing itself with their corporate practicing of maximizing short term profits no matter what. Sadly, it's become the American way Boeing employees came up with the saying/ policy- "If it's Boeing, I ain't going"
@brandonl6196
@brandonl6196 2 месяца назад
GE 💪
@user-rx7ns4re9u
@user-rx7ns4re9u 2 месяца назад
Built a lot of engines in Evendale. GE
@Jack-bs6zb
@Jack-bs6zb 2 месяца назад
@Jupitercyclops … or … ‘Rolls Royce is THE choice’
@timothysmirz2160
@timothysmirz2160 2 месяца назад
Nope
@Mentaculus42
@Mentaculus42 2 месяца назад
18:18 A-11 ?? Maybe A-12! The SR-71 is the lower flying & probably a bit slower version of the A-12. Some of this video, whatever it is, is just cringeworthy. A little bit of it is interesting if one can filter the …
@cschuh4695
@cschuh4695 2 месяца назад
I often wonder if Kelly Johnson ever took the opportunity to go for a ride in one of "his" SR-71s... Anybody know??
@Dronescapes
@Dronescapes 2 месяца назад
He actually did.
@jamesanagnos6123
@jamesanagnos6123 2 месяца назад
wow America was so insecute that Sputnik a basket ball size tin can that went beep beep hahaha hilarious
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