UK-based elements provider GKN Aerospace has accomplished and delivered the primary high-voltage Electrical Wiring Interconnection System (EWIS) for the Clear Aviation SWITCH mission.
The AC wire harnesses, designed, assembled and examined at GKN Aerospace’s web site in Papendrecht, the Netherlands, allow megawatt-class hybrid electrical propulsion. Further items can be shipped in July to Collins Aerospace’s superior electrical energy programs lab, The Grid, in Rockford, Illinois, and can endure system integration testing later this 12 months. The system will then help hybrid-electric Pratt & Whitney GTF engine demonstrator testing at EME Aero in Poland.
The SWITCH mission is a world collaboration targeted on creating superior plane propulsion applied sciences for enabling improved effectivity and efficiency in future short- and medium-range plane. Led by a consortium together with MTU Aero Engines AG, RTX companies Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace, Airbus and GKN Aerospace, SWITCH is supported by the European Union by means of the Clear Aviation Joint Enterprise.
“The supply of GKN’s high-voltage electrical wiring system to RTX is a crucial subsequent step towards demonstrating the effectiveness of hybrid-electric propulsion know-how for future plane platforms,” stated Kristin Smith, Vice President, Electrical Energy Programs at Collins Aerospace. “As a part of the SWITCH mission, Collins’s powertrain system will start testing later this 12 months at The Grid lab earlier than meeting and check of two Collins megawatt-class energy motor mills inside a full-scale Pratt & Whitney GTF demonstrator engine.”
Supply: GKN Aerospace
