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1978
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FUGHT international, 7 January 1978 Mitsubishi builds P & W's JT8D under licence MITSUBISHI (Japan) Engine Works, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Head quarters: Daiko Plant, Nagoya Aircraft Works, 1-1 Daiko-cho, Higashi-ku, Nagoya 455. Tel: Nagoya (052) 721-3111. Public company engaged in heavy engineering, aircraft and aero-engine manufacture. Corporate assets Y2,675,157 million (£5,838 million) and employees 109,300. Corporate sales in 1976 up to Yl,841,169 million (£4,018 million), of which aero-engine sales represented an extremely small proportion:, Mitsubishi is licence^building the P&W JT8D-9 turbofan for the Kawasaki C-l twin-jet military transport, and the Detroit Diesel Allison CT63-M-5A turboshaft for the Hughes/Kawasaki OH-6J helicopter. Seventy JTSDs are scheduled to have been delivered by 1977. The company is also participating in the Government-backed FJR710 turbo- fan programme, and has developed its own GCM1B turbo- compressor unit. MOTORAVIA (Italy) Motoravia Sud SpA. Headquarters: Zona Punto Franco, Casella Postale 227, 72100 Brindisi. Tel: 22071. Wholly owned subsidiary of Fiat (see Fiat entry for corporate activities), capitalised at LI,300 million (£840,000). Subsidiary employees 480. Motoravia Sud was formed in 1971 under the name Nuova SACA Motori and was originally owned equally by Fiat and Societa per Azion© Costruzioni Aeronavali (SACA). More recently, Fiat has acquired sole ownership. Motoravia Sud is engaged in engine overhaul and the manufacture of engine components, and has provided a means for Fiat to expand its aero-engine activities in >Southern Italy. Engine programmes to which the Brindisi company is contributing, in collaboration with Fiat and Alfa Romeo, include the RB.199, T64/P4D, J79-GE-19, J85- AR-13A, Viper 601 and the LM2500 industrial and marine turbine. Motoravia Sud also overhauls Orpheus and J33 turbojets and a variety of piston engines. MTU (West Germany) Motoren- und Turbinen-Union Munchen GmbH. Head quarters: Postfach 50 06 40, 8000 Munchen 50. Tel: (0811) 1489. Public company formed jointly by Maschinenfabrik AugSiburg-Numberg AG and Dataller-Bens AG to handle the aeroengine activities of the parent companies. MAN AG is a leading German vehicle, general engineering and steel construction company, with corporate sales in 1976-/77 up 14 per cent to DM4,100 million (£1,020 million). It is owned 75 per cent by Guteaoffnungshutte AV, a large German industrial group with sales in 1976-77 up 9-2 per cent to DM'12,090 million (£3,007 million). Daimler-Benz is West German's largest motor-vehicle manufacturer, with corporate sales in 1976 up 11 per cent to DM23,500 million (£5,846 million). MTU sales in 1976 were up marginally to DM980-8 million (£244 million), 90 per cent of which came from military aero-engine work. MTU Munchen employs 5,700 people. Much the larger of Germany's two aero-engine concerns, MTU is heavily dependent on military engine programmes, particularly the RB.199 Panavia Tornado) and Larzac (Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jet). In the long term the company is seeking to reduce its military engine work to around 50-60 per cent of sales. One move towards this end was the signing in July last year of an agreement with P&W to participate in the design and development of the new 29,0001b JT1QD-4 commercial turbofan. MTU will be responsible for 12-8 per cent of programme costs, and will design and develop the 1-p turbine and exhaust case. Fiat is the third participant in the JT10D. At present the P&W turbofan has no firm application— thrust levels under study vary between 20,0001b and 34,0001b—but certi- fieationj is scheduled for 1981. MTU already has an approxi mately 101 per cent share in the manufacture of GE CF6-50 turbofans for the Airbus Industrie A300B. Major current source of activity is MTUs 40 per cent share in the RB.199 programme. Deliveries of some 400 engines now on order by the air forces of Britain, West Germany and Italy are scheduled to start in May this year. Likewise, deliveries of production Larzacs, in which MTU has a 25 per cent stake, are also getting under way. In a third new produc tion programme, MTU has begun manufacture under licence of 222 Allison Model 250-C20B turboshafts in support of the Bolkow BO105 VBH and PAH-1 liaison and attack helicopters for the German armed services. The engines are designated Model 250-MTU-C20B. In its earlier turbine-engine programmes, MTU built some 1,130 J79s for European F-104s and F-4s, and 232 T64 turboshafts for CH-53G helicopters. Service support for these engines will continue into the 1980s. MTU is also engaged in a variety of development projects for advanced engine components and manufacturing processes. MOTORLET (Czechoslovakia) Motorlet NC. Headquarters: Prague-Jinonice. Tel: 52 22 41. National corporation engaged in aircraft turbine and related light-engineering manufacture. Most Motorlet engines are fitted to CzecMniilt military trainers, with sales to Comecon and overseas countries as well as the Czech Air Force. The company built some 5,000 M701 turbojets to its own design for the Aero L-29 Delfin through to the early 1970s. Subsequently the 3,7951b- thrust Ivchenko AI-25TL turbofan has been licence-built for the L-39 Albatros, and some 500 have already been produced. The Russian turbofan is an uprated, fully acro batic derivative of the 3,3001b commercial engine powering the Yak-40 transport, and is understood to be marketed by Motorlet as the Walter Titan. The L-39's manufacturer is hoping to achieve eventual total sales of around 2,000 aircraft. Protracted development of the indigenous M601 turboprop for the Let L-410 Turbolet is also under way at Motorlet. NATIONAL AIRCRAFT (China) National Aircraft Engine Factory. Headquarters: Stan, China. China's aircraft gas-turbine activities date from, the mid- 1950s, when licensed manufacture of the Klimov RD-45 turbojet for Chineserbuilt and operated MiG-15 fighters began at the Shenyang factory. This was followed in the early 1960s by licensed manufacture of the Klimov RD-9 turbojet for the F-6, China's version of the MiG-19. In 1965 deliveries! of the Tumanski RD-11 turbojet started, this time without a licence. The most recent event has been the signing of an £80 million ($140 million) licence agreement with Rolls-Royce in December 1975 to build the Spey RB.168-25R augmented turbofan for an indigenously designed fighter of MiG-23/F-4 performance:. Eventual total business for R-R and other participating British companies is likely to be around £100 million ($175 million). It was presumably from Shenyang that 30 Chinese-built RD-11 engines were supplied to Egypt last year for its force of Russian-made MiG-21s, which the USSR has refused to support. Sian is located some 500 miles north of Peking. NOEL PENNY (UK) Noel Penny Turbines Ltd. Headquarters: Siskin Drive, Toll Bar End, Coventry CV3 4FE. Tel: (0203) 301528.
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