With the assistance provided by Gurit’s team, guiding ACF’s process and manufacturing, ACF selected SE 180 prepreg for the fan blades, a hot in/hot out product suitable for use in presses. With the ...

P&W close to selecting material for PW1000G fan blades. By Lori Ranson 2009-05-20T12:36:00+01:00.

Blade Materials. For both snubber and wide chord blades, a conventional fine grain titanium alloy—which is 6% aluminum and 4% vanadium (Ti6Al4V)—is used. This combination is simple in terms of ...

Rolls-Royce reports it started manufacturing a series of geared turbofan engine blades for the demonstrator version its forthcoming UltraFan ® engine, at its jet-engine technology hub in Bristol, ...

PW close to deciding on GTF fan blade material. By John Croft 2010-03-31T22:53:03+01:00.