GE Aviation received an award from the FAA as part of the Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise (Cleen) program–a joint government-industry initiative to accelerate the development and maturation of aircraft and engine technologies that cut noise, emissions and fuel burn. Under the program, GE and the FAA will share an investment of up to $66 million over a five-year period. The project’s timeline extends to 2015, by which time GE and the FAA expect to see the technologies enter the commercial fleet.
GE plans to use the Cleen award to help fund development of its TAPS II combustor, open rotor and flight management system-air traffic management (FMS-ATM) technologies. For the TAPS II combustor, GE expects the funding will help advance dynamic modeling and size scaling. For the open-rotor program, it plans to use the award to support blade aero-acoustic and pitch-change mechanism research. Finally, GE expects the program will improve FMS trajectory algorithms for fuel, emissions and noise performance.
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