Lightweight aircraft engines of the future – DLR, MTU and GKN are optimising their compression systems

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Lightweight aircraft engines of the future – DLR, MTU and GKN are optimising their compression systems


Making good things even better – long-term partners MTU Aero Engines, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and GKN Aerospace Engine Systems have been working together within the European research programme Clean Sky 2 to optimise an engine compression system of and make it lighter. The new technologies could be incorporated into the next generation of geared turbofans. The test campaign using the ICD rig has now been officially launched at the DLR site in Cologne.



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