Regional Round-Up#
LEAP Engine flies through first tests
December 1st 2013
CFM’s new fuel efficient LEAP engine has completed a five-week ground testing program of 310 hours and 400 cycles. In the coming year, 15 LEAP engines, which will be a combination of all three models, will be tested including early icing testing in Canada and early endurance testing. Read More » The launch of the LEAP engine testing has set in train a three-year program of construction of 60 engines that will go through 40,000 cycles of testing before they enter service. The LEAP engine is designed to provide 15% better fuel consumption and an equivalent reduction in CO² emissions, compared with today’s best CFM engine.
GE Aviation will start purchasing cellulosic synthetic biofuel from The D-Arcinoff Group (DG) for its production and development testing of the group’s jet engines from 2016. GE consumes 10 million gallons of jet fuel at its engine testing centres. The 10-year agreement with the Washington D.C. company will supply 500,000 gallons of jet fuel at the company’s main jet engine testing facility in Peebles, Ohio, with options to increase the annual synthetic fuel volume to 100 million gallons a year. The synthetic biofuel, which will be equivalent in cost to conventional jet fuel, will be produced at a new DG facility to be built in Texas.
