Updates from Safran

Safran and GE launch RISE

Safran and GE Aviation have launched aunched a bold technology development programme rogramme targeting more than 20 percent lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions ons compared to today’s engines. The CFM RISE ( Revolutionary Innovation on for Sustainable Engines) programme e will demonstrate and mature a range of new, disruptive technologies for future engines that could enter service by the mid-2030s.

Technologies matured as part of the RISE Programme will serve as s the foundation for the next-generation ion CFM engine that could be available by the mid2030s. The programme goals include ude reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions ssions by more than 20 percent compared to today’s ay’s most efficient engines, as well as ensuring 100 percent compatibility bl with alternative energy sources such as Sustainable Aviation Fuels and hydrogen.

The programme is being led by a joint GE/Safran engineering team that has laid out a comprehensive technology roadmap including composite fan blades, heat resistant metal alloys, ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), hybrid electric capability and additive manufacturing. The RISE programme includes more than 300 separate component, module and full engine builds. A demonstrator engine is scheduled to begin testing at GE and Safran facilities around the middle of this decade and flight test soon thereafter.

Safran's Arriel 2E on H145 flies on sustainable aviation fuel

A rescue helicopter has flown on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for the first time, achieving a new milestone in international aviation.

Operated by the Germa German non-profit organisation ADAC Luftrettung, the Airbus H145 H rescue helicopter has its Arriel 2E engines cere ceremonially refuelled with biofuel, a type of SAF, a at the air rescue station at Munich’s Harlaching C Clinic.

The biofuel fueling the H145 is a second-generation biofuel - the SAF of choice of the aviation industry - which significantly r reduces CO2 emissions because they are produced from residual and waste ma materials, usually from the food industry, su such as used vegetable oils and fats. As a resu result, the fuel has no negative impact on agri agricultural food production. The fuel used fo for the first rescue helicopter flight in Munich was p produced by TotalEnergies at its refinery in Norma Normandy from used cooking oil. Biofuel is currently certifi certified and approved for aviation use i in a maximum i bl blend d of f 50 percent with conventional kerosene of the JET-A1 type. The ADAC rescue helicopter was flown on a 40 percent blend.

SIA selects Safran wheels and carbon

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has chosen Safran Landing Systems to provide wheels and carbon brakes for its entire fleet of Boeing 777- 9 through a tailored brake landing Service contract. 31 aircraft are currently on order. Under this contract, all heatsink exchanges will be performed by Safran Landing Systems’ facility in Sendayan, Malaysia. Safran Landing Systems currently supports wheels and carbon brakes for 126 Airbus and Boeing aircraft at SIA and Scoot, the low-cost airline of the Singapore Airlines Group, including A320, A350, 737-800 NG, 737-8 MAX and 787.