AIRCRAFT ENGINES

Aircraft Engines Environmental Impact



Table of Contents

Introduction of the Eurofighter3

Main Body4

Critical analysis of European fighter aircraft project5

Project organisation and management analysis5

Analysis for the planning and control for the European aircraft7

Technical difficulty and complexity9

External factors influence for Eurofighter analysis10

Conclusion12

Introduction of the Eurofighter

The Eurofighter project, is the biggest European project which had original started at 1983, it consist of a number European country jointed together to develop a military aircraft which known as Typhoon. The aircraft itself have finally in production and service at the moment, but before of this, the project have faced many critical problem in the Technical, political and economical problem. Such as the project has concluded with 50 billion, costs at 30billion over budget, and also 5 years delay for the whole project. There was a debate about is this project is Success or failure. We can investigate by some of the surface statement. e.g. The divergences in national requirements for a European fighter led France to withdraw from the project in 1985, after that the declining defence spending and allocation of work between the partners, which had increased cost and future delay of the project. (Wei and Hansen, 2003 pp. 279-296)

The good side is the project itself it's the project bought the economical benefit - approximate fifteen thousand of jobs in the aerospace industry and the related business, over 400 companies were involved in the 65.3 billion programmes. Because of this, it will improve the employment rate and the technical development of the involved country.

Main Body

The comparison of the environmental impact from the operation of large (wide-body) and small (narrow-body) aircraft on short-haul routes showed the following. Increasing aircraft size, switching from an A320 (150 seats) fleet to a B747 (524 seats) fleet and adjusting the service frequency to offer similar seating capacity will increase LAP but decrease climate change impact. When these impacts are monetized and aggregated the analysis showed that environmental benefits will result. In addition, increasing aircraft size will also reduce noise pollution around airports.

Making best use of available capacity from an environmental perspective also means, as the analysis clearly shows, higher seating densities on aircraft (naturally, the environmental benefits only occur if the load factor is maintained when the aircraft seating capacity is increased). However, it can be expected that in this case, airlines already optimize the trade-offs between passenger welfare and their operating costs.15

The above analysis demonstrated that there are no large economics of scale, in s of environmental impact, in aircraft operation. This is mainly the result of the current strategy by aircraft manufactures to couple range and capacity in aircraft design. To make a better use of available runway capacity and to reduce the environmental impact from aircraft operation, especially at large airports, a large (wide body) aircraft designed for short-haul operation would be required.

Due to the project it has different kinds of characteristic. It just too hard to define is this one a successful project or a failure, in management of view: this project is a failure if they ...