Aircraft
Airbus, CFM Team on Open Fan Engine Flight Test
Airbus and CFM announced a collaboration to flight test CFM’s open fan engine architecture on an A380 demonstrator.
Left to right: Mohamed Ali, v-p engineering, GE Aerospace; Sabine Klauke, Airbus chief technical officer;  François Bastin, v-p, commercial engines, Safran Aircraft Engines.
Left to right: Mohamed Ali, v-p engineering, GE Aerospace; Sabine Klauke, Airbus chief technical officer; François Bastin, v-p, commercial engines, Safran Aircraft Engines.

Airbus and CFM International plan to flight test CFM’s open fan engine architecture aboard an Airbus A380, the companies said at the Farnborough Airshow Tuesday. Conducted as part of CFM’s Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engine (RISE) demonstration program, the engine manufacturer—a joint venture between GE and Safran—will first perform engine ground tests and flight test validation at GE Aviation’s Flight Test Operations center in California in the U.S. The A380 demonstration tests, expected in the second half of the decade, will follow, performed from the Airbus flight test facility in Toulouse France.


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