Mackie
12-05-2008, 04:03 PM
GE38 breakthrough
At this year’s Farnborough Airshow, MTU CEO Egon Behle inked a contract that ushers in a new era for Germany’s leading engine manufacturer. With that contract, the company takes an 18 percent stake in the GE38 helicopter engine. “For the first time, MTU acts as a development participant in a U.S. military engine program,” enthuses Behle.
http://www.mtu.de/de/take-off/report/archiv/2_2008/208_ge38/arbeitsdateien/ge38_hth_fb.jpg The heavy transport helicopter HTH
http://www.mtu.de/layoutOrdner/bilder/layout/lupe.gif (http://www.mtu.de/en/take-off/report/archiv/2_2008/208_ge38/ge38_hth_fb/index.html)
While the German engine manufacturer has been a production partner of General Electric in the U.S. military programs F404 and F414, it will now bring its development savvy to the table as well, designing and building the three-stage power turbine for the GE38 turboshaft engine to power heavy-lift helicopters. Additionally, the German engine builder has obtained licenses for maintaining, final assembling and testing GE38 models on the proposed European heavy transport helicopter (HTH).
First application of the new GE38 helicopter engine will naturally be a U.S. model, the triple-engine heavy-lift CH-53K of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. It is intended to replace, beginning in 2013, the 156 CH-53E SUPER STALLION™ helicopters of the U.S. Marine Corps. The two partners in the engine, GE and MTU, assume there will be further export orders. The engine may find a home also on other military aircraft. In all, taken across the diverse helicopters and turboprops in question, the market is expected to potentially absorb 6,000 copies. Says Behle: “For MTU, this means revenues of about two billion euros over the life of the program of about 30 years.”
http://www.mtu.de/de/take-off/report/archiv/2_2008/208_ge38/arbeitsdateien/ge38_ge38_fb.jpg The GE38
http://www.mtu.de/layoutOrdner/bilder/layout/lupe.gif (http://www.mtu.de/en/take-off/report/archiv/2_2008/208_ge38/ge38_ge38_fb/index.html)
The GE38 engine delivers more than 7,500 shaft horsepower and bases on the U.S. services’ GE27 Modern Technology Demonstrator Engine program and the U.S. Navy’s T407 turboprop engine. First component tests have already been made and given good results. “Its foray into this program has positioned MTU ideally for future growth and put it in pretty good shape also for the demands of the European market,” says MTU’s Program Director Rainer Becker. The engine is scheduled to make its first run in early 2009.
http://www.mtu.de/en/take-off/report/archiv/2_2008/208_ge38/index.html
At this year’s Farnborough Airshow, MTU CEO Egon Behle inked a contract that ushers in a new era for Germany’s leading engine manufacturer. With that contract, the company takes an 18 percent stake in the GE38 helicopter engine. “For the first time, MTU acts as a development participant in a U.S. military engine program,” enthuses Behle.
http://www.mtu.de/de/take-off/report/archiv/2_2008/208_ge38/arbeitsdateien/ge38_hth_fb.jpg The heavy transport helicopter HTH
http://www.mtu.de/layoutOrdner/bilder/layout/lupe.gif (http://www.mtu.de/en/take-off/report/archiv/2_2008/208_ge38/ge38_hth_fb/index.html)
While the German engine manufacturer has been a production partner of General Electric in the U.S. military programs F404 and F414, it will now bring its development savvy to the table as well, designing and building the three-stage power turbine for the GE38 turboshaft engine to power heavy-lift helicopters. Additionally, the German engine builder has obtained licenses for maintaining, final assembling and testing GE38 models on the proposed European heavy transport helicopter (HTH).
First application of the new GE38 helicopter engine will naturally be a U.S. model, the triple-engine heavy-lift CH-53K of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. It is intended to replace, beginning in 2013, the 156 CH-53E SUPER STALLION™ helicopters of the U.S. Marine Corps. The two partners in the engine, GE and MTU, assume there will be further export orders. The engine may find a home also on other military aircraft. In all, taken across the diverse helicopters and turboprops in question, the market is expected to potentially absorb 6,000 copies. Says Behle: “For MTU, this means revenues of about two billion euros over the life of the program of about 30 years.”
http://www.mtu.de/de/take-off/report/archiv/2_2008/208_ge38/arbeitsdateien/ge38_ge38_fb.jpg The GE38
http://www.mtu.de/layoutOrdner/bilder/layout/lupe.gif (http://www.mtu.de/en/take-off/report/archiv/2_2008/208_ge38/ge38_ge38_fb/index.html)
The GE38 engine delivers more than 7,500 shaft horsepower and bases on the U.S. services’ GE27 Modern Technology Demonstrator Engine program and the U.S. Navy’s T407 turboprop engine. First component tests have already been made and given good results. “Its foray into this program has positioned MTU ideally for future growth and put it in pretty good shape also for the demands of the European market,” says MTU’s Program Director Rainer Becker. The engine is scheduled to make its first run in early 2009.
http://www.mtu.de/en/take-off/report/archiv/2_2008/208_ge38/index.html