Engines

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

Accidents

Southwest Engine Probe Reveals Fatigue Crack in Fan Blade

Investigators yet to find missing piece of broken fan blade
Engines

Safran Delivers First U.S.-built Arrius 2R to Bell

The 2R was certified in December 2015 and is slated to power the Bell 505 JetRanger X light single.
Engines

Additive Manufacturing To Eliminate 845 Parts on GE's ATP Turboprop

Using additive “represents an elimination of thousands of machining features and inspections, and hundreds of quality plants and procure contracts."
Aircraft

Engine Supply Delays To Slow C Series Deliveries

Bombardier cuts 2016 production projection from 15 to seven
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Engines

GE Eyes Digital Future with Additive Manufacturing Play

Company acquires two additive manufacturing equipment suppliers
Aircraft

Rolls-Royce To Replace Turbine Blades Early on All Trent 1000s

Fatigue cracking leads to flight cancellations at Japan’s ANA
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Engines

U.S. Army Awards Contracts for Turbine Engine Design

GE Aviation and the ATEC joint venture of Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney will complete preliminary designs of a new 3,000 shp engine.
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Engines

Czech Government OKs Backing for GE Aviation ATP

The formal agreement has not been signed, but the government-approved incentives would include investment in a new $385 million (U.S.) facility.
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Engines

Honeywell's TPE331 Celebrates its Golden Anniversary

In service for half a century now, the turboprop engine's makers are looking ahead to its centennial.
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Engines

ICAO Is the Forum for Emissions Standards, Industry Says

Facing a possible U.S. regulation governing aircraft engine emissions, aerospace manufacturers said they are committed to global benchmarks.
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Engines

Five-blade Composite Prop Boosts Evolution Performance

The propeller is lighter weight and increases speed, among other things.
Engines

Hartzell Introduces Rebuilt Alternators To Help Meet Demand

As it deals with supply chain issues surrounding its new built gear-driven alternators, Hartzell goes the factory-refurb route.
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Aircraft

ESA Gives Sabre Hypersonic Engine a Boost

This week at Farnborough Reaction Engines also announced the creation of a U.S.-based subsidiary
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Engines

P&W, Wizz Air Ink $2.5B Deal for GTFs

Canadian engine OEM also signs GTF maintenance agreement with Air Canada for its coming C Series fleet.
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Engines

Avio Aero Teams With Iones for Korean KF-X Program

The partners will be design a new gearbox for GE F414 engines.
Engines

CFM Takes In $8.2 Billion at Farnborough

Raft of air show orders led by 200 Leap-1As from Air Asia
Engines

LHT Joins P&W GTF Network

The network now includes Pratt & Whitney and its GTF collaborators, MTU Aero Engines and Japanese Engines Corporation.
Engines

Pratt & Whitney Canada Eyes Growth Opportunities in Europe for PT6A

The Canadian company played a consultancy role in helping the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) develop the guidelines.
Engines

Pratt & Whitney to Move Systems to IBM Cloud

P&W will move its enterprise systems, including engineering and manufacturing, to the IBM Cloud infrastructure.
Engines

LHT Joins P&W Mx Network

German MRO has become a principal provider of mobile servicing for P&W engines.
Engines

GE Signs a Pair of Maintenance Deals

Engine maker inks deals with Lufthansa Technik and StandardAero.
Engines

GE Preps To Manufacture Advanced Turboprop in Europe

Initially rated at 1,300 shp, future iterations of the ATP will range from 850 to 1,650 shp.
Engines

Continued Success for Unison

Unison has won contracts with Dubai-based Emirates, and Safran of France.
Engines

Pratt & Whitney Canada Sign MOU with Antonov

P&WC will provide Antonov’s AN-132 program with a new version of the PW150A turboprop engine.
Engines

Engine Alliance Adds Overhaul Centers in Dubai and Singapore

Engine Alliance’s new engine overhaul centers in Dubai and Singapore will support GP7200 turbofans.
Engines

GE Debuts On-site “Collaboration Center”

Company can use data and analytics to help customers reduce operating costs, increase aircraft utilization and optimize revenue.
Aircraft

Airbus Approaches Delivery Crunch

Airbus faces heavy year-end delivery rate, warns Bregier.
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Engines

Ontic Takes On More JT15D Responsibilities

Ontic’s legacy engine support specialism has been given a boost with its acquisition to the rights to handle additional P&WC JT15D parts.
Aircraft

Russia's New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

New narrowbody’s rollout a source of prestige for Kremlin.
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Aircraft

Engine Delays Hold Back Neo Deliveries

Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofans are still not ready for prime time.
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