CFM International (a joint GE Aerospace and Safran Aircraft Engines company) has announced that its revolutionary open-fan engine design is now moving from design to full-scale testing. This does not ...
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Why CFM's open-fan engine must solve the acoustic problem that killed GE's 1980s open-rotor program
The headline figure attached to CFM International's RISE program is easy to understand; more than 20% lower fuel burn than today's best narrowbody engines would represent one of the largest efficiency ...
The Open Fan engine, the distinctive architecture that could power the next generation of single-aisle aircraft, targets a significant step change in efficiency for the aerospace industry. A quick ...
There is this estimate in the aviation industry that the world would need around 40,000 new commercial aircraft over the next two decades, the vast majority of them playing in the single-aisle segment ...
Dust-ingestion tests with representative RISE high-pressure turbine blades have been conducted on both an F110 donor engine (pictured) and a Leap-1. Credit: GE Aerospace As CFM International builds up ...
Ground tests of the open-fan engine demonstrator will take place later this decade, while a separate powerplant will fly aboard an Airbus A380 testbed. CFM International’s RISE open-fan engine ...
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