Fri, Jan 17, 2003
BAE Systems and Hispano-Suiza Team Up to Promote
Technology
BAE
Systems Controls and Hispano-Suiza, a Snecma company, have formed
FADEC International, a limited-liability company that will focus
the two companies' capabilities to design, produce, and support
full-authority digital engine controls (FADECs) for large
commercial aircraft engines.
"Since 1984, [the companies] have teamed up to
serve airlines and aircraft maintenance and repair providers with a
full range of capabilities," said Dennis Slattery, FADEC
International's newly appointed president. "This arrangement will
benefit our customers and provide faster delivery of repair service
and spares and uniform performance."
Single-lever control
After nearly two decades of joint development, manufacture, and
support activity, "FADEC International offers a single point of
access for our combined capability that will make it easier for
customers to know and do business with us," said Loic Nicolas,
Hispano-Suiza's director of business development. "Our airline
customers, numbering more than 350 worldwide, and the dozens of
organizations we support with maintenance, repair, and overhaul
services will benefit from the considerable streamlining that will
result from this venture".
The two companies have produced FADECs for CFM56, CF6-80, and
GE90 engines, logging more than 100 million flight hours on engines
that power some 3,000 commercial aircraft.
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