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$49-Million Gas Turbine

Subcontract Awarded To

AVCO Lycoming Stratford

AYCO Lycoming Stratford Di- vision, Stratford, Conn., has re- ceived a $49-million subcontract from Bell Aerospace-Textron for 96 TF40B marine gas turbine engines for the Navy's new Land- ing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC).

The award includes $8.0-million this year for detail design, long- lead procurement, and construc- tion of the first 12 engines, with options totaling over $41-million for subsequent deliveries.

The LCAC craft are the new- est addition to the U.S. Navy's amphibious assault landing craft program designed to preserve the capability for the ship-to-shore movement of men, vehicles, and equipment during an amphibious assault. The vehicles can trans- port a 60-ton payload at 50-knot speeds and are able to cross beach terrain. They will be built at the Bell-Halter facility in New

Orleans, La. Each craft will use four of the Lycoming TF40B en- gines to provide lift as well as thrust. The basic core engine, on which the TF series of Lycoming turbines is based, have accumu- lated 3,500,000 operating hours.

The marine version has more than 250,000 hours powering fer- ry boats, patrol ships, and hover- craft. This commonality of core engine components with the T55 aircraft engines will give the

Navy the advantage of being able to draw upon the existing sup- port and spare parts depots es- tablished where AVCO-powered helicopters are flying. They will also be able to draw on an estab- lished training base in the U.S. and on the established overhaul facilities in the states and in

NATO nations.

The initial contract calls for the delivery of engines starting in late 1983 and continuing until early 1985. There is the potential for production deliveries of four hundred engines, plus spare parts, through the 1990s.

Joseph G. Koelbel Joins

Advanced Marine Firm

Joseph G. Koelbel Jr.

Joseph G. Koelbel Jr. has re- cently joined Advanced Marine,

Virginia Beach, Fla., as senior project engineer, it was an- nounced by George Ponton, gen- eral manager of the southeast division. Mr. Koelbel has over 30- years' experience in naval archi- tecture. His initial assignment will be the development of a plan and specification package for a new 200-foot passenger/vehicle ferry for the State of Virginia.

While assigned to the Virginia

Beach Office, he will also be serv- ing the company's home office in

Arlington, and the New York

Office.

Advanced Marine is a naval architecture/marine engineering firm serving the Naval Sea Sys- tems Command, Military Sealift

Command, U.S. Coast Guard, and several major shipyards.

SNAME New England

Section Hears Waste

Heat Recovery Paper

A recent meeting of the New

England Local Section of SNAME was held in Newton, Mass., at which a paper entitled "Standard

Waste-Heat Recovery Systems", authored by P. Schneider, was presented by his collaborator,

Ernst H. Schaad.

Mr. Schneider is the head of the Diesel Installation Depart- ment of Sulzer Bros., Inc., Win- terthur, Switzerland. Mr. Schaad works in this same department and is responsible for advanced projects.

In his presentation Mr. Schaad

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