Engines

News and developments about aircraft engines, including turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft and piston.

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Textron Aviation Puts Large-cabin Hemisphere 'On Hold'

Safran's progress on fixing Hemisphere's Silvercrest engine doesn't satisfy the Cessna Citation airframer.
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Rolls-Royce Allots More Hybrid-electric Resources to Germany

The UK engine maker is teaming with the state of Brandenburg to create a regional ecosystem for hybrid- electric power and propulsion activities.
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Rolls-Royce Lines Up Greener Future With UltraFan

Rolls-Royce is investing heavily in its UltraFan and the Advance technology program so it can be ready for airframers' next gen aircraft.
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Thailand Signs Up for Rolls T56 Engine Upgrade

Upgrading the engines of the Royal Thai Air Force's Hercules will help them serve until at least 2040.
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AeroTec, magniX To Electrify Caravans

Modification work to install and certify the 750-hp magni500 electric propulsion system on Cessna 208 already underway
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Safran Makes First Ground Run of Tech TP Engine

Safran's new turboprop engine is designed to be more electric, fuel efficient, and produce fewer emissions
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Safran Unveils Add+ Engine with 3D Printing

Safran's Add+ demonstrator engine features uses additive manufacturing for 30 percent of its content
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CFM Seals Massive Leap Deal with AirAsia

The Malaysian low-fare carrier finalizes a purchase contract covering 200 Leap-1As.
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MRO Urges Operators To Mind the (Z) Gap

Dallas Airmotive is reminding HTF7000 operators of the OEM's Service Bullentin AS907-72-9067
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Leap Production on Track as CFM Racks Up Milestones

All CFM Leap-1A deliveries to Airbus are now on time and within weeks Boeing will be receiving all Leap-1Bs on schedule as well.
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CFM Details Leap Nozzle Coking Research, Potential Fixes

CFM is working to minimize for the Leap an issue that it said affects all jet engines.
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EASA Adds Trent 1000-TEN IP Turbine to Previous ADs

EASA has added Trent 1000-TEN intermediate-pressure turbine to previous ADs of the Rolls-Royce engine.
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Boeing Still Not Ready To Commit to NMA

The launch of the Airbus A321XLR won’t influence Boeing’s calculations of the business case for its proposed new middle-of-the market airplane.
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Rolls-Royce Invests in Future Tech

UK engine manufacturer is moving ahead to ready next-gen large engine while also ensure it can “go electric” or more electric where required.
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Aircraft

MagniX Debuts All-electric Aircraft Propulsion Systems

U.S. company’s motors selected by Eviation for Alice, and by Harbour Air for its seaplanes.
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Aircraft

Daher, Airbus, Safran Team on EcoPulse Hybrid Propulsion

French companies anticipate first flight of the demonstrator, based on the TBM platform, in 2022.
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Safran Moving Ahead with New Engine Programs

Safran Helicopter Engines on track to certify four engines in 2019, launching new technology
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MTU Global Growth Project Underway

In an extensive global expansion program, MTU Aero Engines and MTU Maintenance are expanding their facilities and activities worldwide.
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Aircraft

Aviation's Electric Future Lands at the Paris Air Show

The Alice all-electric aircraft makes its debut at Paris, while Airbus is displaying its Vahana VTOL concept.
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Aircraft

Boom Unveils More Details on Supersonic Airliner

Completion of Boom's XB-1 demonstrator is expected by year’s end, first flight in early 2020.
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Proliferating Business Sees GE Transfer Engineers to Military Work

The T901 EMD contract is just one of many engine programs GE Aviation’s military business has in design and development.
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Does JSTARS Demise Spell End for Airborne ISR?

Space-based reconnaissance and advanced networking offer a paradigm shift for airborne ISR.
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CFM’s Leap Production Back on Schedule

The GE-Snecma joint venture fully expects to meet its delivery target of 1,800 engines this year.
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First Quarter GTF Deliveries Doubled YOY

Pratt & Whitney said it is on track to meet all its geared turbofan delivery commitments to customers for the year.
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Precision Engineering in Demand

Indian manufacturer Aequs Aerospace joins OEM tier 1 family.
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Rolls-Royce Singapore Trent Factory Powers Asia-Pacific Growth

Rolls-Royce chose Singapore for its Asia-Pacific aero engine center of excellence, and has not looked back as the region grows.
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GE9X Flight Testing Evaluates Possible Future

The second phase of GE9X flight testing evaluated new engine parts that GE might use to improve the GE9X in the future.
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Ampaire Demonstrates Hybrid Motor with Public Flight

The Los Angeles-based startup is using a Cessna 337 Skymaster as the testbed for its electric propulsion system.
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GAO Upholds GE ITEP Contract Award Following Protest

As GE Aviation readies development of its T901 ITEP turboshaft engine, competitor ATEC is lobbying Congress to award dual EMD contracts.
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Trent 1000 Fix Ranks as Top Priority for Rolls-Royce

Premature blade deterioration cost the UK engine maker some $540 million last year.
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