Avio Aero is honored to be chosen by @AirbusDefence to power #Eurodrone: sites involved in the program are in Italy, Czech Republic, Germany and Poland. The #Catalyst engine has been conceived as 100% ITAR-free.
Avio Aero been chosen by Airbus to power Eurodrone: the #Catalyst engine, currently performing flight-testing campaigns, is the 1st turboprop in aviation history made w/ 3D printed components, enabling a lighter & more efficient engine.
the #Catalyst delivers up to 20% lower fuel consumption, 10% more cruising power and payload or three more hours on a typical UAV mission than turboprop engines today
Eurodrone is kind of the expected name too. I think they should just go all in on this for the EU army. Eurosergeants, Europanzers, Eurorifles, Operation Rolling Eurothunder
I wonder if the Catalyst engine can take the opposite path to the Safran proposal, which was a modified helicopter engine, and become a helicopter engine itself. It would be a big win for the Italian aerospace industry.
This seems a very expensive project to use an American company as the engine supplier.
I get the engine will be made in Italy but couldn’t airbus have used a solely European engine supplier like RR, MTU, ITP or Safran
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Avio Aero is honored to be chosen by @AirbusDefence to power #Eurodrone: sites involved in the program are in Italy, Czech Republic, Germany and Poland. The #Catalyst engine has been conceived as 100% ITAR-free.
Avio Aero been chosen by Airbus to power Eurodrone: the #Catalyst engine, currently performing flight-testing campaigns, is the 1st turboprop in aviation history made w/ 3D printed components, enabling a lighter & more efficient engine.
the #Catalyst delivers up to 20% lower fuel consumption, 10% more cruising power and payload or three more hours on a typical UAV mission than turboprop engines today
Eurodrone is kind of the expected name too. I think they should just go all in on this for the EU army. Eurosergeants, Europanzers, Eurorifles, Operation Rolling Eurothunder
I wonder if the Catalyst engine can take the opposite path to the Safran proposal, which was a modified helicopter engine, and become a helicopter engine itself. It would be a big win for the Italian aerospace industry.
This seems a very expensive project to use an American company as the engine supplier.
I get the engine will be made in Italy but couldn’t airbus have used a solely European engine supplier like RR, MTU, ITP or Safran