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 ...side resulting from the
lack in engine commonality," says Stuart
Mann, product marketing director of the
A320 family.
According to Airbus chief engineer
single aisle family Wolfgang Engler, the
PW6000-powered A318 equipped with the
definitive version of the engine will have
around 2% higher fuel consumption than
the CFM56-version - but its 6% lower
maintenance costs ensures direct operat...
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 ...as the engine undergoes a major redesign
(see panel). Although the delay was a major
blow, as most A318 customers had speci
fied the P&W engine, Airbus has coped by
reshuffling the programme, and PW6000
customers Frontier Airlines and Inter
national Lease Finance have switched to
the CFM56. Of the 108 A318s on order,
around two-thirds are now CFMI powered.
Flight-testing of the first airc...
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 ...rogramme update
FRESH START
The German-built A318 makes its public debut
as Airbus reworks the programme following the
delay to the Pratt & Whitney PW6000
MAX KINGSLEY-JONES / LONDON
A318 FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS
FLIGHT
Narrower cargo door
no containerised
cargo option)
Pratt & Whitney PW6122
or PW6124 engines
rated at (22,1001b or 23...
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 ...st time.
It was the company's strategy to arrive at
this position by 2010, but a train of events
led it to be selected by P&W to supply its
HDV12 six-stage high-pressure compressor
(HPC) for the PW6000 in June.
"This is a very important milestone in
our strategy," says Steffens. For the past
two years MTU has been preparing its civil
engine HPC design - building on its expe
rience in dev...
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 ...ry out of the 25
originally ordered by LanChile.
The deal, if finalised, would boost
the A318 programme, which has
suffered a number of order cancella
tions, and potentially the Pratt &
Whitney PW6000 engine as
LanChile's A320s are powered by
V2500s built by P&W's joint-ven
ture International Aero Engines.
Only America West remains a
PW6000/A318 customer following
delays in the program...
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 ...at family (AE31X). The
other members of the family are the 150-seat A320,
which first flew in February 1987, and the 185-seat
A321, which entered service in 1994.
The aircraft is offered with P&W PW6000 and
CFMI CFM56-5B turbofans and features a 0.8m
vertical extension to its fin over the A320 to compen
sate for the shorter fuselage.
The PW6000-powered version of the A318 had
its first fl...
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 ...AKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
IT ISN'T SO BRUTAL
IF YOU'RE MADE FOR IT.
Short hops, high cycles and savagely competitive markets have met their match in the PW6000. Made with 40% fewer stages, the PW6000 is
not only highly durable but cooler and the least expensive to own in its class. It's what happens when vision ^i^ Pratt & Whitney
and know-how come ...
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 ...AKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
IT ISN'T SO BRUTAL
IF YOU'RE MADE FOR IT.
Short hops, high cycles and savagely competitive markets have met their match in the PW6000. Made with 40% fewer stages, the PW6000 is
not only highly durable but cooler and the least expensive to own in its class. It's what happens when vision MI^ Pratt & Whitnev
and know-how come ...
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 ...AKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
IT ISN'T SO BRUTAL
IF YOU'RE MADE FOR IT
Short hops, high cycles and savagely competitive markets have met their match in the PW6000. Made with 40% fewer stages, the PW6000 is
not only highly durable but cooler and the least expensive to own in its class. It's what happens when vision ^i^_ Pratt & WhitnBV
and know-how come...
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 ...AKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
IT ISN'T SO BRUTAL
IF YOU'RE MADE FOR IT.
»
Short hops, high cycles and savagely competitive markets have met their match in the PW6000. Made with 40% fewer stages, the PW6000 is
not only highly durable but cooler and the least expensive to own in its class. It's what happens when vision ^u^ Pratt & Whitney
and know-ho\ come ...
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 ...i
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
IT ISN'T SO BRUTAL
IF YOU'RE MADE FOR IT.
Short hops, high cycles and savagely competitive markets have met their match in the PW6000. Made with 40% fewer stages, the PW6000 is
not only highly durable but cooler and the least expensive to own in its class. It's what happens when vision ^i^. p^att & Whitney
and know-how.come...
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 ...j^^glgiiF
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
IT ISN'T SO BRUTAL
IF YOU'RE MADE FOR IT.
Short hops, high cycles and savagely competitive markets have met their match in the PW6000. Made with 40% fewer stages, the PW6000 is
not only highly durable but cooler and the least expensive to own in its class. It's what happens when vision ^i^. p^tt & Whitnev
and know-how come ...
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 ...ays that both Boeing
aircraft are derivatives of 1960s' designs, a factor
which it claims is reflected in lower efficiency
and higher operating costs.
Since the A318's Farnborough unveiling, the
PW6000 has been the only engine offered on
A319 and it remains "the engine of reference for
the programme", says Airbus. Although there
are no firm signs yet of the incumbent A3 20
family powerpla...
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 ...opment
programme
MAX KINGSLEY-JONES / LONDON
AIRBUS A318 ORDERBOOK
Orders
Air France
America West
CIT Aerospace
Frontier Airlines
GECAS
ILFC
Total
15
15
4
5
30
15
84
Engine
CFM56
PW6000
N/A
CFM56
CFM56
PW6000
Note: N/A - not announced
The Airbus A318 may have been a problem child for its loving parent during its formative years, but it is now full speed ahead for the sma...
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 ...b) Power max (SL) (shp) Notes/Description (inc submodel) Application
It was another year of mixed fortunes, retrenchment and hard decisions for P&W as it faced continuing development issues with its PW6000 for the A318, accelerated
retirements of JT8Ds and another attempt at curing the nagging surge problems on the PW4000. On the plus side, 2002 saw the entry-into-service of the first PW2043
po...
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 ...nges
Airbus and Pratt & Whitney are in
intensive talks with their A318 cus
tomers over delivery dates and
engine selection, following contin
uing problems with the perfor
mance of the twinjet's PW6000,
originally designated the launch
powerplant.
The CFM56-5 will now become
lead powerplant on the A318 pro
gramme, and the airframe builder
has been forced to start a major
overhaul of th...
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 ...AKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
IT ISN'T SO BRUTAL
IFYOU'RE MADE FOR IT.
with 40% fewer stages, the PW6000 is not only highly durable but cooler
The PW6000. Pratt & Whitney. SMART ENGINES FOR A.TOUGH WORLD.
Pratt & Whitney
A United Technologies Company
www.pratt-whitney.co...
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 ...AKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
TAKE OFF AND LAND.
IT ISN'T SO BRUTAL
IFYOU'RE MADE FOR IT.
with 40% fewer stages, the PW6000 is not only highly durable but cooler
The PW6000. Pratt & Whitney. SMART ENGINES FOR A TOUGH WORLD.
Pratt & Whitney
A United Technologies Company
www.pralt-whitney.co...
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 ...g, says Weinberg: "We're looking at ways to
grow the engine and do other things with it,
because we think it's the greatest thing since
sliced cheese." •
Next generation
power
Pratt & Whitney's PW6000 development
is about to reach the critical first flight
milestone
GUY NORRIS/EAST HARTFORD
AROUND THE test rigs and stands at Pratt & Whitney's Willgoos power sta tion-like test site in Con...
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 ...IR TRANSPORT
MANUFACTURING GUY NORRIS / LOS ANGELES
P&W to move PW6000
assembly to Hanover
Cost-cutting and marketing reasons cited for decision to transfer engine to MTU
Pratt & Whitney is transferring
final assembly and test of produc
tion PW6000 engines to...
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