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Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's first engine, completed on Christmas Eve 1925, was named the Wasp by Faye Belden Rentschler, whom Frederick had married July 25, 1921. The 425 horsepower (317 kW) Wasp easily passed its official qualification test in March 1926 and the Navy ordered 200 engines. The
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Rentschler left the Army convinced that future aircraft would require lighter-weight engines with much greater power and higher reliability. His proposed design of an air-cooled engine flew in the face of conventional wisdom, which held that heavier liquid-cooled engines would power the future of
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and pressed for research into his idea. Unable to convince his board of directors, largely composed of investment bankers with little aviation knowledge, he resigned in 1924, and supported by old friend and Wright chief engineer
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In 1958, the United States Air Force posthumously presented him with the Civilian Service Award for Exceptional Service as a pioneer in the development, research and manufacture of aircraft engines.
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In 1929, Rentschler ended his association with Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool Company, but was allowed to keep the name Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company. Rentschler,
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George A. Rentschler and Phoebe Schwab, whose family owned the Republic Motor Car Co. that built Republic cars from 1910 until 1916. They were also principals in
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speed, climb performance, and reliability that the engine offered revolutionized American aviation. Over the next twenty years, from the original Wasp design the
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in his honor. The airfield was decommissioned in 1995, and the land it was on was donated to the state of Connecticut in 1999. A stadium, also called
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in 1909 and worked in his family's businesses as a molder and machinist. When the U.S. entered
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Rentschler remained as president of United Aircraft until his death on April 25, 1956, in
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In 1934, UATC was broken up, and its manufacturing interests east of the
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developed, approaching ten times the power of the 1925 engine.
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designer, aviation engineer, industrialist, and the founder of
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jet engine in 1953. The engine was used to power the first
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Pratt & Whitney's former company airfield, located in
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in which Rentschler and Mead had a controlling position.
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American aerospace engineer and executive (1887–1956)
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promised to approve the purchase of such an engine.
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