In 1956, the president of Pratt & Whitney Canada, Ronald Riley, asked engineering manager Dick Guthrie to put together a team to design a small gas turbine engine. While the demand for the company’s Wasp radial engine was good, Riley’s goal was to make Pratt & Whitney Canada’s leading engine company by focusing on a small gas turbine engine.
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