EBACE Show News - May 20, 2008 - (Page 58)

EBACE 2008 P&WC Basks in Cessna’s Choice of the PW810 Cessna’s selection of Pratt & Whitney Canada to power the large-cabin Columbus business jet is “extremely significant,” says P&WC president Alain Bellemare. “It launches a whole brand new family of engines, the PW800. It’s a new centerline design, a clean sheet of paper that takes us from 10,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds of thrust. We had nothing in this range before, so all of a sudden this launches us into large business aircraft, ultra long-range business aircraft, and regional airliners.” Pratt started work on the new engine in the mid 1990s with a goal of winning a regional jet application “but the first application is a business jet,” he said. The significance of the PW800 is that its advanced core will also be used for the Geared Turbofan GTF engines selected to power the Mitsubishi Regional Jet and the Bombardier C Series airliners. And these geared turbofans will form the basis of Pratt & Whitney’s ambition to power the next generation replacements for the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320. The PW810 for the Columbus does not have a geared turbofan. The high-pressure sections will be the same, but the low-pressure spool will be different as it doesn’t have to drive such a large fan. The Cessna engine is also scaled down slightly to 8,830-pounds-thrust. Pratt & Whitney Canada and its parent company in the U.S. are working more closely than ever on this engine as it crosses over their old dividing line of under10,000-pounds-thrust up north, and 10,000 pounds and bigger in East Hartford. The win has secured Pratt & Whitney a place in the 10K-sized engine market, following the or number four you have already lost two or three applications. You cannot make a business case work with just one application—it is impossible.” The cost of entry can be high, but Pratt’s business case is likely on firmer footing than most with the PW800’s wins at Mitsubishi and Bombardier. Business aviation manufacturers are using the competition in the engine sector to drive prices down. “They all expect the same,” said Bellemare. “They want very aggressive low pricing up front. They want to add exceptional customer support. And they want to make sure you have a very wide, global footprint to support the aircraft. “That is one of the biggest changes. In the PW810 turbofan will power Cessna Columbus. The PW810 will surpass International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) emissions standards by up to 50% for nitrous oxide and by up to 35% for carbon monoxide emissions, and will also achieve low unburned hydrocarbon and smoke emissions. Noise will be well below Stage IV standards. —Pratt & Whitney Canada. P&WC’s Alain Bellemare. victory by Rolls-Royce at Dassault on its Super Midsized jet. Honeywell, Snecma and GE Aviation are also competing with proposals for 10K engines. Bellemare said the next competition could be crucial. “If there is a third manufacturer coming into this same segment, in my view it is going to be one of the last ones, if not the last one. You come to a point where if you are number three past, business aircraft were going largely to the U.S. market. Now they’re global. The airframers expect us to expand our MRO and maintenance operations around the world.” Pratt & Whitney, he claimed, has the broadest aftermarket network of any of the business jet engine makers as it already supports 42,000 engines in service in 190 different countries. —John Morris Dallas Airmotive Expands Mobile Response Team Dallas Airmotive (Booth 1007) has added two highly experienced field service engineers to its mobile response team covering Europe, Africa and the Middle East. They are based at the company’s Portsmouth, England, Regional Turbine Centre (RTC), which is co-located with its H+S Aviation engine repair and overhaul affiliate. The Portsmouth RTC now employs three full-time engineers dedicated to field service work. The team is on call 24 hours a day with expertise for on-wing support of Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A, JT15D and PW500 engines, and is supported by an additional five technicians dedicated to in-shop repair services at the Portsmouth facility. “Our mobile response team engineers have a combined 45 years experience on P&WC products,” says RTC program director Andy Preston. “These engineers have OEM expertise and extensive factory training that enables them to handle virtually any on-wing service requirement.” An H+S Aviation technician repairs a PWC PT6 turboprop engine on a King Air. 58 May 20, 2008 www.aviationweek.com/shownews http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews

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EBACE Show News - May 20, 2008 Contents Premier II, Hawker 4000 G650 Is Already a Hit Cessna’s Grand Columbus New Jets Large and Small Aerion Claims 40 Orders Lufthansa Business Jets New Airplanes by Cessna PW810 for the Columbus Lufthansa Technik Grows Honeywell Celebrates GE Launches a GA Unit Blink Banks on Mustangs Selling Those Playthings Collins Fusion for Lear 85 Bigger than the Battlers

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