WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Technologies Corp (UTX.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Wednesday it had fixed a blade failure in its engine powering the first Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) F-35 fighters.
"We have new blades in production," President and Chief Operating Officer Louis Chenevert told the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit. "And we have returned to flight."
The problem was discovered in the third stage of an F135 test engine, built by United Technologies unit Pratt & Whitney, after an engine blade snapped off, Maj. Gen. Charles Davis, head of the Pentagon's F-35 program office, told the summit earlier on Wednesday.
Chenevert said the F-35 engine business was potentially worth tens of billions of dollars to Pratt & Whitney.
(For summit blog: summitnotebook.reuters.com/)
(Reporting by Jim Wolf; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
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