Aviation News Item: 09029

27th May 2010

Source: ubmaviationnews.com

General Electric has recently delivered the 5,000th CF34 engine. The OEM said that, on a daily basis, the regional jet turbofans travel the equivalent of 210 times around the planet and carry 500,000 passengers to their destinations. The engine family has a dispatch reliability rate of 99.95 per cent and has logged more than 50 million flight hours. For the next-generation CF34 engine, GE plans to further reduce fuel consumption by 15 per cent compared with the latest CF34-10E variant. The technology programme will incorporate the company's eCore technologies, including 3-D aero design airfoils, advanced materials, and the next-generation TAPS combustor for reduced emissions. Core testing began in 2009. The engine could enter service as early as 2015. Aircraft Technology Engineering & Maintenance magazine is publishing a detailed feature on the CF34-family in its forthcoming June/July issue.

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