May 16 1978
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had awarded Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group of United Technologies Corp. an $80.4 million contract for advanced technology to improve fuel efficiency in future turbofan engines. Options in the contract could raise its total value to $94.4 million. This effort, a cooperative government-industry technology program to reduce fuel consumption in future turbofan engines by 10 to 15%, while also reducing direct operating costs, emissions, and noise levels, would constitute the major part of the energy efficient engine project, an element of NASA's aircraft energy efficiency (ACES) program. At the end of the 5-yr technology contract, Pratt & Whitney should be able to begin development of advanced commercial turbofan engines for airplanes flying in the late 1980s and early 1990s. NASA had signed a similar technology-development contract with General Electric. (NASA Release 78-74)
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