976

WORLD AERO-ENGINE INDUSTRY

facturer of low-power piston engines, target drones, and electronic and other equipment. Meteor produces a range of small 100-110 h.p. two-stroke piston engines under the generic name of Alfa to power its series of radio-controlled drones for the Italian and other armed services.

M I C R O T U R B O (France) Microturbo SA. Headquarters: Chemin du Pont de Rupe, BP 2089, 31019 Toulouse Cedex. Tel: (61) 476326. Manufacturer of small gas-turbines for propulsion, starting, auxiliary-power and vehicle applications. Other products include electrical and electronic control systems, and heat exchangers. Aerospace sales represent over three-quarters of the corporate total of Fr65 million, £6 • 4 million for 1974. Corporate employees 350. Microturbo is a leading European manufacturer of small gas-turbines, and is functionally organised in such a way that its subsidiary I D A is responsible for design and development, while Microturbo undertakes series production and (in the US and UK) Ames Industrial associated companies provide service support for Microturbo products. Propulsion engines as such comprise the smaller part of the group's work; current units are all turbojets, namely the Cougar, Super Cougar, T R S 18 and T R S 60 covering 1801b to 6601b thrust. These have applications in drones, powered sailplanes and homebuilt aircraft.

M I K U L I N (USSR) This bureau developed an early series of turbojets. They were the M-209 bomber engine, the RD-3M for the Tu-104 and the 21,0001b RD-3M-500 powering later versions of the Tu-104. Mikulin also manufactures a low-power radial engine, the M - l l , in the 125-160 h.p. bracket, which has been built in large quantities for trainers and helicopters.

M I T S U B I S H I HEAVY INDUSTRIES (Japan) Engine Works, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Headquarters: Daiko Plant, Nagoya Aircraft Works, 1-1 Daiko-cho, Higashi-ku. Nagoya 455. Tel: Nagoya (052) 721-3111. Public company engaged in heavy engineer­ing, shipbuilding, machinery, car, aircraft and aero-engine manufacture. Corporate assets $8,067 million, Y2,359,422 million, £3,361 million, and employees 114,321. Corporate sales in 1973/74 down to Yl,094 million, £455-8 million, of which aero-engine sales represented a very small percentage. M H I ' s major aero-engine activity is the licence-manufacture of US turbines for Japanese military aircraft. These are the Allison T63-5 for Hughes-Kawasaki OH-6J helicopters and the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9 turbofan for Kawasaki 's C-l transport. Seventy JT8D's are scheduled to be delivered by 1977. Other activity includes participation with I H I and K H I in development of the FJR710 commercial turbofan.

FLIGHT International, 19 June 1975

MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES

PRATT & WHITNEY AIRCRAFT

DETROIT DIESEL ALLISON

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t l O O PER CENT

|ENGINEWORKS

1 JT8D turbofan

14,5001b

NATIONAL AEROSPACE

LABORATORY

FJR710/10and/2Cf turbofan

11,0001 b-33,000lb

f Model 250-C/T63 - - ( turboshaft

V 317s.h.p. ) ISHIKAWAJIMA-HARIMA

HEAVY INDUSTRIES

KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES

M O T O R L E T (Czechoslovakia) Motorlet NC. Headquarters: Prague-Jinonice. Tel: Prague 522241. National corporation engaged in aircraft-turbine and related light-engineering manufacture. Motorlet 's major outlet is via Czech-built military trainers, with sales t o Comecon and other overseas countries as well as the Czech Air Force. The company has built some 5,000 M-701 turbojets of its own design, and production continued during 1974. Main product line at present is licence-manufacture of the Ivchenko AI-25 turbofan for the Aero L-39. Protracted development is underway of the indigenous M-601 turboprop, intended for the Let L-410 Turbolet.

M T U (West Germany) Motoren-undTurbinen-Union Miinchen GmbH. Headquarters: 8 MUnchen 50, Postfach 500640. Tel: 0 89/1 48 91. Public company owned jointly by Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-NUrnberg A G and Daimler-Benz AG to under­take the aero-engine activities of the parent companies. MAN is primarily engaged in motor-vehicle manufacture, general engineering and steel construction, with corporate sales in 1973-74 up to DM2,630 million, £417-7 million (and owned 75 per cent by Gutehoffnungshutte AV, large

GUTEHOFFNUNGSHUTTE

T 75 PER CENT

50 PER CENT

JD TURBINEN-UNION I

j 40 PER CENT

GENERAL ELECTRIC

TURBO-UNION

/ R B . 1 9 9 turbofan "\ V, 8,500^-14,500^7

PRATT & WHITNEY AIRCRAFT

CF6-50 turbofan for Airbus

Industrie A300B

f JT10D turbofan "\ V. 25,000lb-30,000lb > •

SNECMA

y 49,

ri_i CF6-50 components

11PERCENT 28PERCENT

CF6-50 turbofan 000lb-51,000lb

3 ALFA ROMEO

GROUPEMENT TURBOMECA-SNECMA

GENERAL ELECTRIC 1—

C , ~ ~ ~ * \ f Larzac turbofan^i Larzac components J V2,300lb-5,400lb )

f T64 turboshaft \ f o r Sikorsky C

aft " \ H-53GJ

_f J79 turbojet \ " \ 11,870lb-17,900lb )

22-6 PER CENT

£C KLOCKNER-

HUMBOLDT-DEUTZ

35 PER CENT

T64 turboshaft 3,925 s.h.p. X X

T64 components

German industrial group with 1973-74 sales up to record DM10,019 million, £1,773 million). Daimler-Benz is the largest German motor-vehicle manufacturer with 1974 corporate sales up to DM16,900 million, £2,991 million. MTU MUnchen sales in 1974 were down to DM527 million, £97-4 million, the majority of which represented aero-engine work. MTU Miinchen employees approximately 6,000. M T U is Germany's largest aero-engine company, and is primarily engaged on a wide range of international development programmes and licence-manufacture of American turbines. This work involves agree­ments with no fewer than nine other aero-engine concerns representing virtually all the major companies in the US and European industries, namely P&W, G E , Allison, R-R, Snecma, Turbomeca, K H D , Fiat and Alfa Romeo.

Development work concerns the Prat t & Whitney JT10D commercial turbofan for which M T U is developing the low-pressure turbine, and the Turbo-Union RB.199 military augmented turbofan which is expected by the late 1970s to provide a third of M T U ' s production workload. Present series manufacture involves the J79-MTU-17A for German Air Force F-4Fs (with M T U being responsible for 40 per cent of the work, including assembly and test of the engines), the T64-MTU-7 for German CH-53G helicopters, high-temperature components for Snecma-assembled CF6-50A turbofans for the A300B and (as the company's only indigenous engine) the M T U 6022 turboshaft.

A forthcoming production programme is the Larzac 04 turbofan for the Alpha Jet. Other work by M T U concerns overhaul of GE ' s J79 and T64, R-R's Tyne Mk2I and Allison's Model 250 engines, and repair and overhaul of components for such turbofans as the P & W JT3D, JT8D and G E CF6. Overall, this spread of activity covering large and small civil and military powerplants gives M T U a relatively stable operating base. Possibly its most critical programme is the RB.199, in which the anticipated stretch-out of production may impose problems for the company.

NATIONAL AIRCRAFT E N G I N E FACTORY (China) National Aircraft Engine Factory. Headquarters: Shenyang. Following a period of large-scale manufacture of Russian piston and turbine engines, this plant has reportedly been producing the Russian RD-11 turbojet and Chinese-developed variants. The Klimov RD-9 turbojet is also thought to have been in production. It is understood that , during the past year or so, large numbers of two types of engine, one with afterburning and the other dry, have been built.

N E L S O N (USA) Nelson Aircraft Corporation. Headquarters: PO Box 454, Irwin, Penn­sylvania 15642. Tel: (412) 863-5900. Manufacturer of low-power piston engines and other industrial products. For small helicopters and ultra-light fixed-wing aircraft, Nelson manu­factures a small four-cylinder two-stroke engine rated at 43-45 h.p. The