Engine production delay slips FARA prototype first flight until late 2024, Army official says
“Manufacturing challenges” continue to plague the Army’s Improved Turbine Engine Program and delay FARA flight tests.
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“Manufacturing challenges” continue to plague the Army’s Improved Turbine Engine Program and delay FARA flight tests.
“We're very confident that [in] FY24 we're able to maintain the investments that we need in order to deliver the modernization strategy that we've set forth,” Undersecretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo.
GE Aviation engines will power the new Bell 525 and the Army's FARA aircraft.
Bell’s tandem-cockpit, single-main-rotor Invictus is competing for the FARA contest against Sikorsky’s Raider X.
Bell’s 360 Invictus is over 95% complete, with a spring arrival for the type’s General Electric T901 engine set to launch ground run testing.