Calcor Aero Systems and GKN Westland Aerospace are to market engine-nacelle systems jointly for corporate and regional aircraft. The agreement combines Westland's nacelle expertise with Calcor's thrust-reverser and variable-area nozzle designs. The team has submitted a bid to supply the nacelle for Aero International (Regional)'s AI(R) 70 regional jet.
The Calcor/Westland agreement covers aircraft with up to 100 seats and power plants with target-type thrust reversers. Whittier, California-based Calcor will market its variable-area nozzle (VEN) independently, for use on aircraft with more than 100 seats and cascade-type thrust reversers.
Pratt & Whitney Canada has completed sea-level tests of Calcor's thrust-reverser and variable-area nozzle (REVEN) on a PW305 business-jet engine, and hopes to conduct altitude-chamber tests in 1997.
The AI(R) 70 bid involves a conventional fixed-area nozzle. Calcor expects its VEN technology to be applied principally to all-new power plants.
Source: Flight International
