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The
Engine Alliance
(
EA
) is an American
aircraft engine
manufacturer based in
East Hartford, Connecticut
.
[1]
The company is a 50/50 joint venture between
GE Aerospace
and
Pratt & Whitney
,
[1]
a subsidiary of
RTX
. Engine Alliance was established in August 1996 to develop, manufacture, sell, and support a family of aircraft engines for new high-capacity, long-range
aircraft
.
[2]
The main application for such an engine, the GP7100, was originally for the
Boeing 747
-500/600X projects, before these were cancelled due to lack of demand from
airlines
.
Instead, the
GP7000
has been re-optimized for use on the
Airbus A380
superjumbo. In that market it competed with the
Rolls-Royce Trent 900
, the launch engine for the aircraft. The two EA variants are the GP7270 and the GP7277.
On September 30, 2017, an
Engine Alliance GP7270
engine suffered from an uncontained failure during the passenger flight of
Air France Flight 66
.
[3]
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