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New opportunities for future small civil turbine engines - Overviewing the GATE studiesThis paper presents an overview of four independent studies that explore the opportunities for future General Aviation Turbine Engines (GATE) in the 150-1000 SHP class. Detroit Diesel Allison, Garrett/AiResearch, Teledyne CAE, and Williams Research participated along with several airframers. These studies forecasted the potential impact of advanced technology turbine engines in the post-1988 market, identified important aircraft and missions, desirable engine sizes, engine performance and cost goals. Parametric evaluations of various engine cycles, configurations, design features, and advanced technology elements defined baseline conceptual engines for each of the important missions identified by the market analysis. Both fixed-wing and helicopter aircraft, and turboshaft, turboprop, and turbofan engines were considered. All four companies predicted sizable performance gains (e.g., 20% SFC decrease), and three predicted large engine cost reductions of sufficient magnitude to challenge the reciprocating engine in the 300-500 SHP class. Key technology areas were recommended for NASA support in order to realize these improvements.
Document ID
19790052734
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Strack, W. C.
(NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
Date Acquired
August 9, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 1979
Subject Category
Aircraft Propulsion And Power
Report/Patent Number
SAE PAPER 790619
Meeting Information
Meeting: Society of Automotive Engineers, Business Aircraft Meeting and Exposition
Location: Wichita, KS
Start Date: April 3, 1979
End Date: April 6, 1979
Sponsors: Society of Automotive Engineers
Accession Number
79A36747
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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