Civil Engines
LEAP engine has 15 per cent improvement in fuel consumption and maintains the same level of dispatch reliability and life-cycle maintenance costs.
TOP CIVIL AERO ENGINES IN THE WORLD TODAY An aircraft engine is a complex machine that is expected to operate at very high altitudes and at very high speeds; its components have to withstand high rotation speeds and very high or low temperatures
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By Air Marshal Anil Chopra (Retd) The turbofan engine market is dominated by a handful of mostly Western players. In an increasingly globally-linked world, aircraft engines are an important component for transport applications, including commercial, military, business and general aviation. Many companies have large portfolios of engines for different uses. As per the Annual Strategy Dossier – 2021, the top four global commercial aircraft turbofan engine manufacturers are Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, GE Aviation and Safran. GE and Safran of France have a joint venture called
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CFM International. Pratt & Whitney also have a joint venture, International Aero Engines with Japanese Aero-engine Corporation and MTU Aero Engines of Germany. Pratt & Whitney and General Electric have a joint venture, Engine Alliance selling a range of engines for aircraft such as the Airbus 380. There are others like Honeywell Aerospace, Russian and Chinese companies into aircraft engine manufacturing. Most engine manufacturers make engines for both civil and military aircraft. Business of most companies was badly affected by the COVID-19
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