Snecma Advances Open-Rotor Wind-Tunnel Tests

Credit: Snecma
Looking 15 years beyond the Leap-1, CFM partner Snecma is heading back into the wind tunnel as it moves toward the ground demonstration of a fuel-efficient, open-rotor engine in 2015 under Europe's Clean Sky civil-aviation research program. The high-speed aerodynamic test of the 1/5th-scale model in...

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