FARNBOROUGH 2008: A400M engine tests present ‘no issues’ for Europrop team
Posted by admin on July 17, 2008Initial ground tests of the Airbus Military A400M’s TP400-D6 engine with a flying testbed have resulted in “no issues at all”, says Europrop International vice-president Jacques Desclaux. A fourth run is expected in the UK on 18 July.
Speaking at the Farnborough air show, EPI president Nick Durham said the engine consortium recently delivered the first two TP400s for the European programme’s second production aircraft, with the other two to arrive at EADS Casa’s Seville final assembly line in Spain by the end of this month.
Three ground runs have been made since early June on a Marshall Aerospace-owned Lockheed Martin C-130 testbed, on each occasion reaching ground idle. “We are reacting to the data generated from those tests,” says Durham, who adds that this has involved only “feedback to tweak this a bit, that a bit”.
The EPI officials say previously published targets to achieve 30h of ground testing before first flight of the testbed actually translate to around
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