Memorial Tributes Volume 2 (1984) / Chapter Skim
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Pratt was chosen to head the Technical and Research Section of the Gas Turbine Department. In this capacity he had a key part in the development of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft's family of gas turbine engines, which today power a large number of the Nation's front-line military aircraft and three-quarters of the free world's commercial jetliners.
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It was the first turbojet engine in the Western world to produce 10,000 pounds of takeoff thrust, and the first to power a production aircraft, the F-100, at supersonic speeds in level flight. More than 21,000 of the engines were produced for such commercial and military aircraft as the Boeing 707, B-52, and KC-135; the McDonnell
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PERRY W PRATT 239 Douglas DC-8, F-101, and A-3; North American Rockwell F-100; General Dynamics F-102; and the LTV Aerospace F-8.
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