Engines
Engine for A400M transport lags in tests
It seems there is no slack left in the Europrop TP400-D6 turboprop engine program for the Airbus A400M military transport.

It seems there is no slack left in the Europrop TP400-D6 turboprop engine program for the Airbus A400M military transport. Here during a press briefing yesterday, Snecma engineering senior vice-president Jacques Renvier and Europrop International program and operations director Jacques Desclaux acknowledged the current 400 hours of ground tests are way behind the planned 1,000 or so hours but insisted this has not affected the aircraft program yet. ITP, MTU, Rolls-Royce and Snecma are Europrop’s stakeholders.

“We should reach 1,000 hours of tests by year end,” Desclaux said. Some 80 percent of dynamic behavior checks have been performed already. These include vibration checks, for instance. Engineers are now prepping an engine for a bird-ingestion trial at Techspace Aero’s test facility in Belgium.

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