Honeywell plans to invest up to $49 million over the next five years into increasing production of aircraft engine parts at Mora Aerospace in Hlubocky, Czech Republic. "We also plan to start repairing sheet-metal components here, for instance combustors and diffusers for turbine engines," says the US company's Czech representative Jaroslav Dolezal. The Mora facility is part of Honeywell's Engines, Systems & Services division.
Source: Flight International
US regulator the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will take no immediate action to address a smoke-related issue involving the CFM International Leap-1B engines that power the Boeing 737 Max.
The engine-maker says the successful demonstration involved a GE Aerospace CT7 turboshaft engine combined with internally-produced electric machine and power electronics.
GE Aerospace in 2025 plans to use two of the world’s fastest computers, both at US-government-funded research facilities, to study how its open-fan engine concept will integrate with an aircraft’s wings and other structures.
