6 AEROSPACEMANUFACTURING
NEWS
Historic agreement
Teams from Aerospace Valley in Toulouse (France), the
Farnborough Aerospace Consortium (UK) and Hanse
Aerospace of Hamburg (Germany) met at the Paris Air Show
in Le Bourget to agree a collaborative venture to respond to
the current and future global demand for composite design and
manufacturing capacity.
The objectives of the collaboration between the three bodies
are: to identify and define the available capacity in France,
Germany and the UK: pursue funding opportunities to develop
composite technologies, specifically in the areas of new design
approaches, low cost tooling, manufacturing processes and
environmentally compliant disposal technologies: and develop
Breadth and balance
the skills and processes essential to exploit the investment
in technology and meet the demands of the global aerospace
During the 47th Paris Air Show Rolls-Royce confirmed that it industry.
had secured business worth a total of $15.1 billion. On the eve www.aerospace-valley.com
of the show, the company was selected to power the C-27J www.fac.org.uk
transport aircraft for the US armed forces and also signed an www.hanse-aerospace.de
agreement to develop a new corporate jet engine for Dassault.
During the air show, commitments were announced for 728
engines on a total of 355 aircraft.
Closer cooperation
Sir John Rose, Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce, said: “The
breadth and balance of the portfolio enables Rolls-Royce to Alenia Aeronautica and Xian Aircraft Company (XAC) of
develop new products and services at lower cost and lower China have announced an agreement for the production of the
risk, and to satisfy a wide range of customer requirements. The Section 18 of the ATR aircraft – a rear section of the fuselage
benefits of this portfolio approach have been illustrated by the – in China. This deal was unveiled on the occasion of the Paris
success which Rolls-Royce has enjoyed at the Paris Air Show.” Air Show. The Xian Aircraft Company, which will supply the
www.rolls-royce.com Section 18 to Alenia for the ATR aircraft, is part of AVIC I, the
China Aviation Industry Corporation Consortium.
Highlighting estimation
The manufacturing of the Section 18 in China will start in
2007 and reinforces the ties between ATR and the Chinese
Delegates at Galorath International’s third SEER User aeronautical industry, which started in 1985 with the supply, also
Conference – recently held at Warwick in the UK – heard how by XAC, of the ATR 42 outer wing boxes. Since 1997, another
the latest estimating methods within the defence and aerospace part of the rear fuselage of the ATRs – the Section 16 – is also
sectors could be applied to their own organisations. manufactured in China by XAC.
Dave Baggley, team leader with the Pricing and Forecasting Since the beginning of the year, Toulouse, Southern France-
Group at the UK MoD’s recently-formed Defence Equipment based ATR has received orders for 53 new aircraft, some of
and Support Unit, focused on the importance of achieving a them not yet unveiled.
coherent approach in the relationship between Through Life Since the beginning
Capability Management (TLCM) and Whole Life Costing of the programme,
(WLC). He also detailed changes to the MoD’s Approvals ATR has sold 890
and Scrutiny Mandate, which covers the independent review, aircraft (416 ATR 42s
support cost approval and methodology used to ensure that and 474 ATR 72s) and
realistic estimates are generated for defence contracts. has delivered 727 (393
The agenda included a presentation by BAE Systems on ATR 42s and 334 ATR
the implementation of parametric estimating methods, and 72s), thus posting a
how Agusta Westland radically reduced bid cycle times with current backlog of 163
parametric estimating techniques using SEER-H. aircraft
www.galorath.com www.atraircraft.com
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