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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 12 - 13 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 16 - 19 20 - 21 22 - 23 24 - 27 28 - 29 30 - 31 Perfectionists in the sky 32 - 35 News Masthead 36 - 39 39 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. Page 4 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. Page 24 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). Page 8 “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. Page 28 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 2 3
Making the right choices By Patrick Hoeveler 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. That marks the first step on the road to creating a new product family. MTU Aero Engines is planning to take an approximate 15-percent stake in either of the two GTF versions. The German engine maker is also betting on a third engine, expecting to take a roughly 15-percent stake in the PW810 at the lower end of the thrust range. It is being built by Pratt & Whitney Canada and targeted at the new Cessna Citation Columbus. While this engine comes without a gearbox, it nevertheless joins the two geared turbofan engines in an extended product family. Dr. Christian Winkler, who heads business development at MTU, explains: “The common core is scaled and adapted also in terms of the materials used. In this approach, the MRJ engine constitutes the basic version of the geared turbofan.” Taken across the full life of the programs, the engine trio is worth a potential 12 billion euros in sales for MTU. 4 Cover Story 5
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Page 5 and 6: Optimized bestseller By Nicole Geff
Page 7 and 8: The fine art of patching By Denis D
Page 9 and 10: Desert boom town By Andreas Spaeth
Page 11 and 12: A veritable power pack You could ha
Page 13 and 14: Thrust for Saudi Arabia By Patrick
Page 15 and 16: “Eurofighter Typhoon - the German
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