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Boeing picks firm to provide aircraft's emergency power system.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2004

The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 20--Boeing Co. has chosen Hamilton Sundstrand to provide an emergency power system -- known as a Ram Air Turbine -- for Boeing's new 7E7 aircraft.

Separately, East Hartford-based International Aero Engines said JetBlue Airways will exercise options to buy IAE's V2500 engines to power a recent purchase of 30 Airbus A320 aircraft.

Both announcements were timed to coincide with the Farnborough Air Show taking place this week outside London.

Hamilton, a division of Hartford-based United Technologies Corp., has been chosen to provide seven systems for the 7E7 Dreamliner. If the new aircraft is as popular as Boeing forecasts, the total work would mean more than $6...

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