SPECIAL REPORT COMMERCIAL ENGINES 2013 IN ASSOCIATION WITH Sponsor Advert LEAP year We’re writing to confirm a date we made with our customers in 2008. The first LEAP engine will begin testing this autumn. Right on schedule. Just like our last 21 engines. Adjust your calendars, we’ve made this a LEAP year. Go to cfmaeroengines.com See the LEAP engine come to life. Get the CFM LEAP app NOW. CFM International is a 50/50 joint company between Snecma (Safran) and GE. Superior performance | Lower cost of ownership | Greater reliability MORE TO BELIEVE IN Flightglobal Insight | 3 C31925.029_CFM_CALENDAR_CommEngRep_17June_267x197_v1.indd 1 06/06/2013 15:02 COMMERCIAL ENGINES 2013 FOREWORD So far so good is probably the best way to summarise progress on engine for the A320neo family. The PW1100G – which has entered key commercial engine programmes during the past 12 months. flight testing – was designed with a variable area fan nozzle, but Prospects for the long-term profitability of many of the world’s P&W has decided this can be removed to “make the engine lighter airlines rest on the ability of CFM International and Pratt & Whitney and less complex”. to deliver the powerplants that should enable the next generation of narrowbodies to provide a step-change improvement in operating In the widebody sector, the prototype Airbus A350 XWB had its Rolls- economics. Royce Trent XWB engines installed and was expected to fly for the first time by the end of June 2013. The recent grounding of the latest Choosing the right engine may never have been more important – widebody twinjet to enter airline service - Boeing’s 787 - means the or harder – than with the Airbus A320neo family. Unlike previous A350 will come under unprecedented public scrutiny when customer engine competitions, the choice between the CFM Leap-1A and P&W deliveries get under way in 2014. PurePower PW1100G is no longer a soft bet on a secondary supplier to an already chosen airframe. Although the 787’s current woes are not powerplant-related, R-R is well aware that as sole engine supplier to the A350 it has a critical The A320neo is almost identical to the previous version of the aircraft role in ensuring the European-built widebody enjoys a relatively except for the choice of engine to power it. The paths taken by both trouble-free commercial debut. engine makers to achieve the 15% rise in fuel efficiency Airbus is seeking for the A320neo, means airlines are not simply acquiring an The UK manufacturer is understandably endeavouring to leave no engine but tacitly taking sides in an ongoing, furious debate about the stone unturned as it seeks to demonstrate the maturity and service- future of gas turbine engine technology. ready credentials of the Trent XWB, its most advanced three-spool large turbofan, which has notched up more than 1,200 sales before Gone are the comparatively subtle technical schisms which defined the A350 even gets airborne. the differences between the International Aero Engines V2500 and the CFM International CFM56. In its place is a stark architectural, even An illustration of this determination is the fact that although all LEAP year philosophical, dispute with a reliance on new and exotic materials flight-test work required for certification of the Trent XWB has been by the Leap-1A on one side and the introduction of a reduction gear completed, Airbus and R-R decided to extend the campaign using the We’re writing to confirm a date we made with our customers inside the PW1100G on the other (read more about this debate on airframer’s A380 flying testbed ahead of the A350’s maiden sortie. P9). in 2008. The first LEAP engine will begin testing this Finally, Boeing’s selection of the General Electric GE9X for all three autumn. Right on schedule. Just like our last 21 engines. CFM International in April 2013 started building the first parts for the proposed variants of the still-unlaunched 777X begins a five-year Adjust your calendars, we’ve made this a LEAP year. common Leap-1A and -1C engines selected to power the A320neo campaign for the US engine manufacturer to test and certificate a new and Comac C919 families. Design freeze of the CFM Leap-1B for product featuring several new advances in gas turbine technology the Boeing 737 Max means that all three versions of the single-aisle and capability. Go to cfmaeroengines.com powerplant have formally entered the assembly stage. GE’s preliminary development plan for the GE9X calls for certification CFM’s latest schedule indicates that 12 Leap-1B test engines will form in May 2018 on a common core, with a slightly more than 100,000lb- See the LEAP engine come to life. part of the development programme, complementing 13 Leap-1As thrust variant to power the 777-9X, a roughly 90,000lb-thrust variant Get the CFM LEAP app NOW. for the Airbus A320neo and three Leap-1Cs. Testing of the -1C, for to power the smaller 777-8X and another variant to power the ultra- Comac’s C919, will benefit from -1A commonality. The manufacturer long-range 777-8LX. CFM International is a 50/50 joint company between Snecma (Safran) and GE. will start ground testing of the Leap-1A - design of which was frozen in June 2012 - in autumn this year. Multiple engines will perform FLIGHTGLOBAL INSIGHT ground-test runs before flight testing starts in 2014. ANTOINE FafaRD: MANAGER ANNA KACZMAREK: ANALYST P&W, meanwhile, scored a significant victory with Embraer opting in January to equip its planned second-generation E-Jet family with the US manufacturer’s geared turbofans. The company has also FLIGHTGLOBAL announced it is making a design change for the PurePower PW1100G ANDREW DOYLE: HEAD OF STRATEGIC CONTENT Superior performance | Lower cost of ownership | Greater reliability MORE TO BELIEVE IN Flightglobal Insight | 3 C31925.029_CFM_CALENDAR_CommEngRep_17June_267x197_v1.indd 1 06/06/2013 15:02 Flightglobal Insight is the research arm of Flightglobal, the world’s leading aviation media group. With access to a wealth of information from Flightglobal’s premium services portfolio and industry expertise, Flightglobal Insight produces special reports and tailored analysis covering numerous sectors of the aerospace industry. Flightglobal Insight sits along side of the solutions offered by Flightglobal Ascend’s consultancy team. 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