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Contents
Cover Story
Making the right choices 4 - 7
Technology + Science
Optimized bestseller
The fine art of patching
MTU Global
8 - 11
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A new brand is born 14 - 15
Customers + Partners
Desert boom town
A veritable power pack
Products + Services
Milestones
Thrust for Saudi Arabia
Interview + Report
“Eurofighter Typhoon – the German
Air Force’s system of the future”
Pilotless aircraft
Anecdote
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Perfectionists in the sky 32 - 35
News
Masthead
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Making the right choices
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has selected it as the sole engine choice for the
Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), and also Bombardier will equip its CSeries with it:
Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan (GTF) is gaining momentum and is obviously
here to stay.
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Thrust for Saudi Arabia
The Eurofighter Typhoon has scored its
second export deal winning a contract
from Saudi Arabia. Worth billions, the
contract is hoped to have a knock-on
effect triggering further sales in the
global market.
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Optimized bestseller
A new chapter is being opened in the
V2500’s book of achievements:
SelectOne is the optimized version of
the best-selling engine built by International
Aero Engines (IAE).
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“Eurofighter – the German Air Force’s system of the future”
Interview with Lieutenant General Klaus-Peter Stieglitz: The Chief of Staff of the
German Air Force is a pilot himself and regularly flies Europe’s most advanced and
capable fighter aircraft.
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Editorial
Dear Readers:
The German International Aerospace Exhibition,
today’s Berlin ILA, was first staged 99
years ago. That puts it on the threshold of a
new century. Aviation, too, is standing on the
threshold of a new era: In view of impending
climate change, aircraft need to be quieter,
fuel-thriftier and cleaner, and their engines
along with them. For years we engine makers
have been working on novel green technologies
and now have found a suitable solution
in the geared turbofan engine. Its introduction
will mark a milestone in the history of
aviation and readily compare with the advent
of the turbofan some 40 years ago.
Pratt & Whitney and MTU have joined forces
to develop the technological base for the
geared turbofan in a plurality of research programs.
This amount of groundwork is gradually
paying dividends: the geared turbofan
has passed its ground tests with flying colors,
and flight testing will be next. These initial encouraging
results have prompted Mitsubishi
and Bombardier to select the geared turbofan
as the sole engine choice for their next generation
of regional aircraft to fly from 2013.
We expect the engine demand to run around
4,500 units.
If the geared turbofan proves its worth in
daily operations, it will be a likely engine candidate
for Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 successor
aircraft. When they enter service in
the latter half of the next decade, the new
short- and medium-haul airplanes are expected
to provide appreciable fuel savings.
Their market volume will run far above that of
regional aircraft. For MTU, they constitute
the most significant potential geared turbofan
segment by far. Considering the significance
the V2500 with its sole application in
the A320 family has for MTU, you can imagine
the significance the new engine will have,
being supposed to find takers in both Airbus
and Boeing.
The geared turbofan concept carries great
significance also technologically: our Claire
(Clean Air Engine) technology program revolves
around it. In three steps, we hope by
2035 to reduce CO 2 emissions by 30 percent
and halve the noise. Importantly, none of the
technologies required for the purpose still
need inventing; they have all been tried and
tested or have been validated for feasibility.
The geared turbofan combines latest technologies:
a gearbox, a highly efficient highpressure
compressor, and a high-speed lowpressure
turbine as a key component. Even
the components envisioned to optimize it subsequently—the
counterrotating fan and the
heat exchanger—have already been tested
and have given outstanding results.
All this makes it very clear that for MTU,
technology and cost leadership remain key
to maintaining competitiveness and highskilled
job security in Germany long-term.
Sincerely yours
Egon Behle
Chief Executive Officer
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