Air France Launches GP7200 On Airbus A380 With $900 Million Deal.Business Editors EVENDALE, Ohio Evendale is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,090 at the 2000 census. Evendale was the home of John Van Zandt, a participant in the Underground Railroad. & E. HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- May 29, 2001 Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde has launched the advanced GP7200 engine on the new Airbus A380-800 with an order for engines to power 10 firm aircraft scheduled to begin delivery in fourth quarter 2006. The value of the order, including option and spare engines, is nearly $900 million. "We are extremely pleased with this order," said Lloyd Thompson, president of the GE-P&W Engine Alliance. "We've been developing this engine since 1996, and we have all of the elements of a truly great powerplant. The GP7200 will provide Air France with industry-leading fuel efficiency and reliability and the best overall cost of ownership on the A380." The GP7200 core, which is a scaled version of that being developed for the GE90-115B, recently completed its second full-scale test, meeting all performance requirements and exceeding projected operability Operability is the ability to keep a system in a functioning and operating condition. In a computing systems environment with multiple systems this includes the ability of products, systems and business processes to work together to accomplish a common task such as finding and characteristics. Another build is planned for testing in 2002. Successful testing of a 42 percent scaled GP7200 swept wide chord A wide chord fan engine is a term to describe a modern turbofan jet engine having a ducted fan with a specific geometry in the inlet of the engine nacelle. In aviation terms, the meaning of "chord" is the line from the front (leading edge) of an aerofoil to the rear (trailing egde). fan was recently completed at Pratt & Whitney facilities in Longueuil, Quebec This article is about the central municipality of Longueuil. For the agglomeration city, see Urban agglomeration of Longueuil. Longueuil (English pronunciation [lɑŋˈgɔɪ] . The tests validated performance improvements of the 3-D aerodynamic design. "Completion of the GP7200 core and swept fan tests solidifies our confidence that the GP7200 will meet or exceed all performance requirements for the A380 aircraft," said Thompson. The next phase of development will start in early 2003 when the Engine Alliance begins detailed design work, leading to the first full engine test in early 2004. The GP7200 is scheduled for joint U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control and European Joint Airworthiness air·wor·thy adj. air·wor·thi·er, air·wor·thi·est Being in fit condition to fly: an airworthy helicopter; airworthy avionics. Authorities certification in mid-2005. First flight of the GP7200-powered A380 is scheduled for early 2006, with aircraft certification and entry into service planned for the end of that year. The A380 has a capacity of up to 555 passengers in a three-class configuration and a range of up to 8,000 nautical miles. The GP7200 will be certified at 81,500 pounds takeoff thrust to meet potential aircraft growth requirements. The engine is initially being offered at three ratings: the GP7268, the GP7270, and the GP7277 and will enter service with Air France at the GP7270 (70,000 pound) rating. In addition to GE and Pratt & Whitney, MTU (1) (Maximum Transmission Unit, Maximum Transfer Unit) The largest frame size that can be transmitted over the network. For example, an Ethernet MTU is 1,500 bytes. Messages longer than the MTU must be divided into smaller frames. of Germany and Snecma Moteurs of France are revenue-sharing participants in the GP7200 engine program. |
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