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The Superior Middle for Aerospace Applied sciences, CATEC, is a part of the OUTCOME consortium, which has been chargeable for the design and manufacturing of the rear fuselage of the high-speed RACER demonstrator, developed by Airbus Helicopters. The venture was launched throughout the framework of the Clear Sky 2 European analysis program, an exercise led by Aernnova in collaboration with FIDAMC, Tecnalia and the Middle for Aeronautical Applied sciences (CTA).
This demonstrator constitutes a extremely advanced construction designed and manufactured solely in Spain, which is able to kind a part of the brand new high-speed helicopter of the European aeronautical firm. It will likely be capable of attain a cruising velocity of greater than 400 kilometers per hour, in comparison with the 260 kilometers per hour that a median helicopter now reaches, with which it’s rising as an optimum plane for emergency medical transport missions and search & rescue.
CATEC’s contribution to the demonstrator has been the manufacture of a collection of elements produced by additive manufacturing utilizing totally different metallic alloys (titanium and aluminum) and plastic supplies and making use of numerous manufacturing applied sciences. CATEC has manufactured elements of the secondary construction reminiscent of numerous helps, digital camera or VOR navigation antennas, and many others., and others belonging to the first construction, such because the fittings for the transferring surfaces of the tail developed in titanium. The latter represents the primary structural elements manufactured utilizing this expertise that can fly in an Airbus helicopter, thus constituting one other new milestone for the Andalusian expertise middle within the industrialization of 3D printing expertise for the aerospace sector.
For Fernando Lasagni, Technical Director of Supplies and Processes at CATEC, “collaborating within the manufacture of this demonstrator for Airbus Helicopters has been an important problem when it comes to flight qualification for these elements. It represents an extra step within the implementation of 3D printing expertise within the aeronautical trade, because of the good expertise that CATEC has amassed within the improvement and use of additive manufacturing within the aerospace sector. CATEC is the one establishment in Europe, and doubtless on the planet, that has developed flight functions in satellites, house probes, launchers, industrial and army plane, and now additionally in helicopters, within the final decade. The competitiveness of 3D printing, in comparison with different manufacturing processes, is rising within the aerospace sector, and it’s remodeling the trade in a related method”.
Racer is now on the Airbus Helicopters facility in Marignane, France, for remaining meeting and subsequent flight marketing campaign launch in 2022.
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