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 ...ITH THE GE90 ENGINE FOR THE BOEING 777,
WE'RE PROUD TO TEAM UP WITH GENERAL ELECTRIC IN ANOTHER
MAJOR SUCCESS.
Snecma is one of the world's leading aircraft engine manufacturers. As a key partner
in many ...
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GE Aircraft Engines
Achievement
Continuing development and sales success of the GE90
Last year was an extremely significant one for General Electric's GE90 engine in terms of sales and development. In 2000, the GE90 won almost 75% of total engine orders for the Boeing 777, the GE90-115B was launched as the engine on Longer Range 777s and the GE90-94...
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 ...Y ANDREW DOYLE/LONDON
GUY NORRIS/LOS ANGELES
APOTENTIAL RIFT between the UK Civil Aviation
Authority and the European Joint
Aviation Authorities QA.\) over
certification of the General Electric
GE90 engine has added a new twist
to the tight deliver)- schedule of the
first Boeing 777 to British Airways.
The CAA has denied any rift,
saying: "It is the JAA engine certi
fication team that i...
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 ...T ECHNICAL: AlR TRANSPORT
BAe boosts ATP performance
British Aerospace is pushing through a performance im
provement programme for the
ATP airliner in an effort to
boost its dismal sales record. ...
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 ...rbine
components for CF6 variants
producing between 213kN and
233kN thrust. MTU has no
involvement in Pratt & Whit
ney's competing PW4000.
When General Electric un
veiled its 335-425kN-thrust
GE90 engine in January, MTU
"MTU was mooted
as a potential
partner in General
Electric's GE90"
was mooted as a potential risk-
sharing partner (to be respon
sible for the LP turbine) along
with...
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 ... requirements (with
input from the engine makers),
the company simply wanted
the rules to apply to all three
competing engines — a consis
tency which, in the end, was
established.
RUSS SPARKS
GE90 Engine Program
GE Aircraft Engines
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Concerning the
Victor designer
SIR — I would like to correct
a mistake on prints of the
Victor bomber, recently sold at
RAF Marham...
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 ... use the tool to carry
out blending at the very first sign of blade dam
age before it has a chance to become serious.
In August 1996, the Blending Scope helped
General Electric to avoid pulling a GE90 engine
out of its time-critical certification effort.
After pioneering work with Lufthansa and
GE, Wolf launched the tool in 1996, and was
quickly included in the Boeing 747 manual for
maint...
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 ...as come full circle with the GE90 and is
vigorously pursuing the 777X market. The
move, begun quietly in the middle of last year,
GE is preparing a raft of new technologies for the
upgrade of its GE90 engine
"We are on the
edge of our seats
because we are
not sure what
Boeing will do
with the aircraft"
-GE'sDick
Ostrom
dramatically reversed its earlier retrenchment
on the GE90. In 19...
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 ...1 AIR TRANSPORT |
UK computer contract for Saratov plant
The main factory producing Yakovlev airliners is form
ing a joint-venture company
with UK computer-aided de
sign and computer-aided man
u...
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 ...o simulate hard-body im
pacts.
Full-scale tests of a complete
fan assembly will take place at
Ruston Gas Turbines in the UK
"early next year", followed by
core tests in October 1992. The
first GE90 engine will begin
tests at Peebles, Ohio, in Decem
ber 1992 or early 1993, he says.
Flight tests will begin a year
later on a Boeing 747-100
testbed based at GE's test site in
the Mojave de...
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 ...lude a
continuous rating of 873kW,
take-off power of 958kW, and a
20s emergency rating of
l,160kW. " . D
Ruston assists GE90 design effort
Ruston Gas Turbines is work ing on General Electric's
GE90 engine following MTU's
withdrawal from the high-thrust
turbofan programme. To offset
the resulting shortfall in design
capability, Ruston engineers are
working on turbine components
and alt...
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 ...-capacity packet-
switched communications payload
will be supplied by TRW Space &
Electronics,which has experience
developing the payload for the US
Milstar military communications
satellite. •
GE90 engine variant flies
GENERAL ELECTRIC has begun
tests of the GE90-94B turbofan for the
Boeing 777-200ER on its 747 testbed.
US certification is due next April and
service entry with Air Fran...
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 ...The pro
gramme is understood to
resemble the Netjets pro
gramme run by New Jersey-
based Executive Jet Aviation.
GUY NORRIS/LOS ANGELES
GENERAL ELECTRIC has been forced to remove parts
from the GE90 engine on its
Boeing 747 testbed and transfer
them to ground-test engines, in
urgent efforts to keep the certifi
cation programme on track.
The parts re-shuffle has been
caused by a recent ...
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 ...lion. •
See feature, P35.
Boeing/GE propose new
icing test waiver on GE90
BOEING AND GENERAL Electric are proposing a re
vised plan to test the effectiveness
of modified acoustic panels on the
GE90 engine which suffered ice-
impact damage during a crucial
natural-icing flight-test on 9
October.
The icing test is the last signifi
cant hurdle to be overcome before
the GE90-powered 777 is...
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 ... final
ly conceded defeat in its race to
deliver the first aircraft to British
Airways before the end of
September. The manufacturer
says that the delay follows
"...recent modifications on the
GE90 engine, which became nec
essary based on earlier flight test
ing". It adds that the first BA
aircraft will now be delivered "as
early in October as possible".
The icing tests at Edwards
AFB...
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 ...e company, which
has 220 staff, also provides
for regional aircraft and air
liner maintenance.
HEADLINES
GE still confident
following GE90
blade failure
JULIAN MOXON/PARIS
GENERAL ELECTRIC's GE90 engine suffered a
high-pressure turbine-blade fail
ure during a 150h block test on 14
November. The company says
that it still expects mid-December
certification of the engine, under
develo...
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 ...IR TRANSPORT
BA to take first growth GE90 for 777
BRITISH AIRWAYS IS TO TAKE delivery of the first growth-
version of the GE90 engine for use on its Boeing 777 B-market
twinjet in December 1996. Certification is scheduled for May
1996. The growth version will produce 410kN (92,0001b) of
thrust, although it is understo...
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 ...endy ordered by Japan
Airlines: The deal overturns a bid
from Pratt & Whitney which pro
vides the power for the airline's
present 777 fleet, and further
underlines the growing popularity
of the GE90 engine.
With 777 orders totalling 538,
GE claims to have secured firm
orders for 201 aircraft, giving it a
37% share of the market. This
overtakes Rolls-Royce which, until
GE secured exclus...
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 ...d feature an
MTOW between the present 300t
and the "700,0001b" (319t) ceiling
set by the GE's 1999 exclusivity
ideal with Boeing which dictates
that all 777s over this weight are
powered by the GE90 engine. D
DHL likely bidder for
VarigLog stake
VARIG IS TO seek a minority partner for its VarigLog cargo
operation. Bidders are likely to
include DHL Worldwide Express,
with which the Braz...
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 ...ritish
Aerospace, believe the French.
GE90 CENTRE
The former British Airways en
gine overhaul centre at
Nantgarw, South Wales, is to
serve as the initial European
maintenance site for the new
GE90 engine, says GE Aircraft
Engines, which bought the op
eration in December 1991.
Under its new name, EMMS
Wales, the centre will continue
to support a range of engines.
THAI FLOTATION
As pa...
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