Kaveri Engine

[Adioz]

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Hopefully Kaveri flies in Tejas for Aero India.

 

[mayfair]

A Kaveri on Tejas test-bed would be huge leap forward..

 

[BON PLAN]

France's Safran Aircraft Engines, which carried out a technical audit on @DRDO_India's Kaveri jet engine development program, has stated in a report that the engine had attained sufficient maturity to be integrated with an aircraft for limited envelope flight testing.

https://twitter.com/statuses/1009413687222919170

 

[Chinmoy]

France's Safran Aircraft Engines, which carried out a technical audit on @DRDO_India's Kaveri jet engine development program, has stated in a report that the engine had attained sufficient maturity to be integrated with an aircraft for limited envelope flight testing.

https://twitter.com/statuses/1009413687222919170

One question.........

What about the core?

 

[darshan978]

ye

One question.........

What about the core?

yeah that's not gonna happen. i was damn sure.
some people were jumping like monkey here and claiming safran core will be integrated on out indigenous kaveri.
i m glad that didn't happen otherwise our greatest Indian fanboys are ready to discredit drdo in a minute...

 

[cyclops]

This is another fake news. Why post such things? India is making Al31F engine that has 80/125kN thrust at 1550kg weight and you are saying that India needs consultants from Snecma to finish 70-80kN worthless engine?

You don't seem to understand the meaning of flat rating. Kaveri is flat rated at 84kN thrust. It can go higher

Not sure if this is ignorance or deliberate disinformation but it’s totally wrong. Stating that they are still at the consultation phase is insane and that they will go from the pre-consultation to having completed 30-40 test flights on an LCA in under a year from now......

As per the DRDO annual report.

 

[kunal1123]

another question .

how much dry/wet thrust.....????

 

[sayareakd]

Lets keep it flying with low level of flight envelop and testing. Once it off the ground, work on it, it will be emmenc moral booster for scientists who have worked on it. Once its off ground, work on it and fine tune it. Then reach the target thrust. At the same time work on next generation of engine.

R&D is continuous process, you have to learn it through research and pump in $$$.
We have be ahead of cureve or at least on tip of curve.

 

[sayareakd]

It will also motivate new generation of Indian Engineers and IITians to work on cutting edge engines for AMCA and beyong, to being in fresh ideas and out of the box thinking to achive our desired goals.

 

[happylion]

Kaveri will not be directly tested on a single engine plane in the beginning. testing requires a bail out engine if the test engine fails.

 

[BON PLAN]

Kaveri will not be directly tested on a single engine plane in the beginning. testing requires a bail out engine if the test engine fails.

On a 4 engines air test bed.
India has all the necessary to do so.

 

[Kshithij]

Kaveri will not be directly tested on a single engine plane in the beginning. testing requires a bail out engine if the test engine fails.

Kaveri initial testing was not done on Tejas. Only after Kaveri engine is certified for a limited envelope, will the testing be done on Tejas as demonstration

 

[suny6611]

On a 4 engines air test bed.
India has all the necessary to do so.

this time french aircraft will be used .............. not russian ?

 

[BON PLAN]

this time french aircraft will be used .............. not russian ?

I'm not sure we have this kind of beast.
M88 were air tested on the Rafale A prototyp, by replacing one mature F404 with a brand new M88. I don't see a Rafale "leased" for this task. For a preliminary air domain apperture, better to use a civilian liner. Airbus A340 ? Russian liner?

 

[happylion]

Testing an engine is not just hooking it up on a plane with 4 engines an flying it. The flying test bed has to have sensors and detectors etc to acquire data for analysis and for correction etc of problems and issues.. That is something we have to build or buy or lease.

 

[Kshithij]

Testing an engine is not just hooking it up on a plane with 4 engines an flying it. The flying test bed has to have sensors and detectors etc to acquire data for analysis and for correction etc of problems and issues.. That is something we have to build or buy or lease.

That is something we can build. We already have ground test bed and that can be installed in big transport jets too. These test beds were in use since 50 years. Even in 1970s and 80s, engines were tested by these kind of test beds. Making them isn't big work.

 

[sayareakd]

Testing an engine is not just hooking it up on a plane with 4 engines an flying it. The flying test bed has to have sensors and detectors etc to acquire data for analysis and for correction etc of problems and issues.. That is something we have to build or buy or lease.

see same thing without flying test bed. With all sensors.

 

[sayareakd]

Personally when Kaveri is successful, i want to use 4 kaveri to power stealth bomber using fly by wire tech.

 

[BON PLAN]

Testing an engine is not just hooking it up on a plane with 4 engines an flying it. The flying test bed has to have sensors and detectors etc to acquire data for analysis and for correction etc of problems and issues.. That is something we have to build or buy or lease.

Russia and USA have it .

 

[BON PLAN]

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see same thing without flying test bed. With all sensors.

It's not the same ! It can just simulate some flying conditions. How to simulate on this bench a -50°C and 12000 meters like pressure for a 60 minutes test ?