EDePro, Engine Development & Production

The production of advanced aircraft solutions and equipment is just one step of the way in which we support our worldwide customer’s missions. Accurate testing and calibration for ensuring a consistent product quality is a prerequisite of success for organisations ranging from defence contractors to government agencies. As an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) regarding gas turbine engines, our expert team is focused on testing and verifying the performance, as well as the safety of produced solutions.

Our own laboratory, designed for testing and calibrating gas turbines, is equipped to perform numerous procedures, such as standard production and sea-level acceptance tests. We also test thrust, power and efficiency, operating lines and stall margins, auxiliary power extraction, fuel flow, specific fuel consumption, engine airflow, bleed airflow, vibration levels, pressures and temperatures, humidity, rotor speeds and the engine pressure ratio.

With the support of our highly-trained team, from production to testing and maintenance, our customers can reduce all risks, lower costs and ensure unmatched performance, together with overall success.

Among many testing procedures used in the modern evaluation of solid rocket motors, EDePro perfected the most effective one – the captive firing of a complete rocket motor. The captive-firing testing includes a static-fired solid-propellant rocket motor for design verification and performance measurement. The entire testing process takes place on our custom-made test stand. Moreover, our rocket motor testing facility provides different types of testing and verification, based on integrated testing and calibration equipment.

Concerning thrust force, we can measure up to 50,000 daN of net thrust on a small-scale test stand, and up to 100,000 daN on a large-scale test stand. During testing, we also measure parameters such as rocket motor thrust force, pressure, local temperature and vibration in real time, and EV testing capability with complete MIL standard temperature range. Furthermore, we test rocket motors for different types of propellant samples, carry out hydrotests and optimise solid-propellant rocket motor ignition systems. In addition, we frequently test production processes within small-scale BATES rocket motors, for the energy verification of solid-propellant samples.