{"id":593465,"date":"2017-03-05T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=593465"},"modified":"2017-03-06T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:45:17","slug":"letu-receives-turbine-engine-from-southwest-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=593465","title":{"rendered":"LETU Receives Turbine Engine from Southwest Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/03\/image015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/03\/image015-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-593466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/03\/image015-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/03\/image015.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c LeTourneau University Friday received a CFM56 turbine engine from Southwest Airlines for use in the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s applied aviation sciences department. The turbine engine, which is about the size of a pickup truck, was from one of Southwest Airlines&#8217; Boeing 737-300 aircraft &#8212; known as the workhorse of their fleet, according to an LETU news release.  This particular engine was in service flying passengers as recently as about two weeks ago.  Representatives of Southwest Airlines were on hand for the acceptance of the engine.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This donated turbine engine will greatly enhance our student education experience in the area of larger turbine engines,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Sean Fortier, chair of LETU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s applied aviation department in the news release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c LeTourneau University Friday received a CFM56 turbine engine from Southwest Airlines for use in the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s applied aviation sciences department. The turbine engine, which is about the size of a pickup truck, was from one of Southwest Airlines&#8217; Boeing 737-300 aircraft &#8212; known as the workhorse of their fleet, according to an LETU &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=593465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LETU Receives Turbine Engine from Southwest Airlines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":593466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 08:56:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593467,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593465\/revisions\/593467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/593466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}