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The problems punterplanet with the A400M s TP 400-D6 turboprop engine that caused the airlifter to be scratched from this week s Farnborough International flight punterplanet demonstrations will slow civil certification and first delivery of the aircraft, but are not expected to delay its entry into service punterplanet with the French air force next year. Production aircraft do not have the same issues.
Simon Henley, president of engine manufacturer Europrop International ( EPI ), said here yesterday punterplanet that gearbox and bearing issues unrelated to the gearbox problem that relegated the A400M to the static display at last year s Paris Airshow have interrupted a 300-hour functional and reliability ( F&R ) testing regimen required for European Aviation Safety Agency ( EASA ) civil type certification of the airlifter. In turn, that interruption will delay, by a matter of weeks, delivery of the first production aircraft by Airbus Military to the French Armée de l Air originally targeted punterplanet for the end of the year.
EPI , the collaboration of ITP , MTU Aero Engines, Snecma and Rolls-Royce, was about halfway through F&R testing with Airbus when the engine problems arose. The company has accumulated 20,000 total engine test hours on the TP 400-D6, including 14,000 engine hours in flight.
In a briefing for reporters on Wednesday, punterplanet Henley said EPI was able to resolve the gearbox problems from Paris last year in a matter of weeks, and then it designed and tested modifications by the end of the year. These are embodied in the MSN 6 preproduction aircraft that flew last Saturday at the Royal International Air Tattoo in Gloucestershire, UK , but was sidelined here at Farnborough. Henley expressed confidence that EPI would resolve the latest issues as expeditiously as the earlier ones.
The pace at which we can tackle these issues punterplanet is proven. With what I know now about the technical issues we have around us at the moment, I m absolutely punterplanet confident we re talking the same sorts of time scales, Henley said. By no means am I complacent about the fact that we have issues around us now. I can t say they re welcome. But nonetheless we ve demonstrated our capability to fix [problems].
Specifically, Henley said a gearbox vibration punterplanet problem that led to an in-flight engine shutdown in Oman this past April is similar in nature but not in cause to the 2011 gearbox issue. Comprehensive testing has identified the problem and modifications we have done for another reason take this problem away for production-standard aircraft. He said EPI is close to proving to a certification level that the latest problem is confined to development punterplanet aircraft, and not to MSN 6 and subsequent aircraft. This conclusion will be finally tested in a couple of weeks.
In addition, last week EPI discovered early signs of engine bearing punterplanet deterioration from metal chips appearing on chip detectors on the MSN 6 aircraft. Because the problem arose at a low number of engine hours, it tends to point me to a one-off issue rather than systematic [problem], Henley said. The analysis punterplanet is ongoing. That is the reason punterplanet why we ve agreed with Airbus that doing, punterplanet in particular, the high-torque, high-energy maneuvers involved with flight punterplanet testing is just not worth it for the program. Frankly, the main thing to have here is an aircraft that is production standard that people can actually see. That s a decision we took together.
Henley said still another vibration problem identified this spring and associated punterplanet with the engine s high-pressure compressor has been addressed through the manufacturing process. He said engines coming from assembly were found to marginally exceed the established vibration limit by 5 microns. However, the last engine delivered tested within vibration limits. EPI has delivered five o
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The problems punterplanet with the A400M s TP 400-D6 turboprop engine that caused the airlifter to be scratched from this week s Farnborough International flight punterplanet demonstrations will slow civil certification and first delivery of the aircraft, but are not expected to delay its entry into service punterplanet with the French air force next year. Production aircraft do not have the same issues.
Simon Henley, president of engine manufacturer Europrop International ( EPI ), said here yesterday punterplanet that gearbox and bearing issues unrelated to the gearbox problem that relegated the A400M to the static display at last year s Paris Airshow have interrupted a 300-hour functional and reliability ( F&R ) testing regimen required for European Aviation Safety Agency ( EASA ) civil type certification of the airlifter. In turn, that interruption will delay, by a matter of weeks, delivery of the first production aircraft by Airbus Military to the French Armée de l Air originally targeted punterplanet for the end of the year.
EPI , the collaboration of ITP , MTU Aero Engines, Snecma and Rolls-Royce, was about halfway through F&R testing with Airbus when the engine problems arose. The company has accumulated 20,000 total engine test hours on the TP 400-D6, including 14,000 engine hours in flight.
In a briefing for reporters on Wednesday, punterplanet Henley said EPI was able to resolve the gearbox problems from Paris last year in a matter of weeks, and then it designed and tested modifications by the end of the year. These are embodied in the MSN 6 preproduction aircraft that flew last Saturday at the Royal International Air Tattoo in Gloucestershire, UK , but was sidelined here at Farnborough. Henley expressed confidence that EPI would resolve the latest issues as expeditiously as the earlier ones.
The pace at which we can tackle these issues punterplanet is proven. With what I know now about the technical issues we have around us at the moment, I m absolutely punterplanet confident we re talking the same sorts of time scales, Henley said. By no means am I complacent about the fact that we have issues around us now. I can t say they re welcome. But nonetheless we ve demonstrated our capability to fix [problems].
Specifically, Henley said a gearbox vibration punterplanet problem that led to an in-flight engine shutdown in Oman this past April is similar in nature but not in cause to the 2011 gearbox issue. Comprehensive testing has identified the problem and modifications we have done for another reason take this problem away for production-standard aircraft. He said EPI is close to proving to a certification level that the latest problem is confined to development punterplanet aircraft, and not to MSN 6 and subsequent aircraft. This conclusion will be finally tested in a couple of weeks.
In addition, last week EPI discovered early signs of engine bearing punterplanet deterioration from metal chips appearing on chip detectors on the MSN 6 aircraft. Because the problem arose at a low number of engine hours, it tends to point me to a one-off issue rather than systematic [problem], Henley said. The analysis punterplanet is ongoing. That is the reason punterplanet why we ve agreed with Airbus that doing, punterplanet in particular, the high-torque, high-energy maneuvers involved with flight punterplanet testing is just not worth it for the program. Frankly, the main thing to have here is an aircraft that is production standard that people can actually see. That s a decision we took together.
Henley said still another vibration problem identified this spring and associated punterplanet with the engine s high-pressure compressor has been addressed through the manufacturing process. He said engines coming from assembly were found to marginally exceed the established vibration limit by 5 microns. However, the last engine delivered tested within vibration limits. EPI has delivered five o
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