Future Affordable Turbine Engine
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The Future Affordable Turbine Engine (FATE) is a US Army program for a 5,000-10,000-shp class turboshaft/turboprop for Future Vertical Lift aircraft and its Joint Multi Role precursor.
Design
To extend range and endurance and to increase hot-and-high payload and performance, it should reduce BSFC by 35%, reduce production/maintenance costs by 45%, improve power-to-weight by 80% and design life by 20% to more than 6,000 hours.
Development
In November 2011, GE was selected for $45 million over five years, to develop technologies including advanced aerodynamics, cooling configurations and improved materials; and rig tests to validate innovative components, leading up to a full system demonstration.{{cite press release |url= https://www.geaviation.com/press-release/business-general-aviation/ge-selected-future-affordable-turbine-engine-program |title= GE Selected for Future Affordable Turbine Engine Program |date= November 21, 2011 |publisher= GE Aviation}}
In 2017, following the successful tests of the engine’s compressor with the highest single-spool pressure ratio recorded, combustor with GE's most extensive use of CMCs allowing unprecedented high-temperature capability and weight reduction, and turbine rig tests, the first assembled engine completed testing after running 40 hours, reaching the program goals, before a second prototype began testing in 2018.{{cite news |url= http://www.americanmachinist.com/shop-operations/ge-aviation-army-complete-future-engine-tests |title= GE Aviation, Army Complete Future Engine Tests |author= Robert Brooks |date= Oct 9, 2017 |work= American Machinist}}