SA 2 GE : S YSTÈMES A ÉRONAUTIQUES D’ A VANT- G ARDE POUR L’ E NVIRONNEMENT

1. SA2GE: SYSTÈMES AÉRONAUTIQUESD’AVANT-GARDE POUR L’ENVIRONNEMENT Pierre Rioux Manager, Research & Development Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Ltd Member of the Board Regroupement pour le développement de l’avion plus écologique

2. Summary • Origin of SA2GE Major Developmental Project • SA2GE Sub-Projects and LeadingIndustrialPartners • Participation by SME, Public Research Centres • Contribution to SustainableDevelopment • EconomicBenefits

3. The Aerospace Industry:A Strategic Sector for Quebec • Aerospace Sector in Quebec • 235 companies • $10,9 billions in revenues, 80% from exports • Close to 40,000 workers • Ranked 6th in the world for sales behind U.S, U.K. France, Germany and Japan • Ranked 1st for manufacturing R&D in Quebec • One of the rare place in the world where almost all of the components needed for an aircraft can be found within a 30 km radius

4. The Aerospace Industry:A Strategic Sector for Quebec • Aerospace Industry in Quebec represents • 55% of total Canadian aerospace production • 50% of Canadian aerospace industry workers • 70% of total Canadian R&D investment in aerospace

5. The Ecological Aircraft: A major developmental project for the Aerospace Industry • On March 30th2010, the Quebec government announced its new Research and Innovation Strategy which included five (5) major developmental projects: • The Ecological Aircraft (L’AvionÉcologique) • The Electric Bus of the Future • Bio-Refining of Forest Resources • Écolo-TIC (Communications and Information Technologies) • A fifth project to be determined

6. The Ecological Aircraft: A major developmental project for the Aerospace Industry • Why is it called a major developmental project? • Project meant to mobilize a vast number of companies, research centres, and actors of the industry around the development, test and demonstration of technologies for the future • Large companies • Equipment suppliers • SME • Universities • Public Research Centres

7. The Ecological Aircraft: A Partnership for the Aerospace Industry – SA²GE Systèmes Aéronautiques d’Avant-Garde pour l’Environnement • A 4-year, $150M collaborative program formally approved by the Quebec Government on August 17th, 2011 • $70M contribution from the Quebec Government (MDEIE) • $80M financing from SA2GE Industrial Partners (Sub-Project Leaders) • 01 April 2010 to 31 March 2014 $80M $70M Industrial Partners

8. SA²GE: Systèmes Aéronautiques d’Avant-Garde pour l’Environnement • Five (5) Sub-Projects with Six (6) Leading Industrial Partners: • Aircraft Composite Fuselage Structures • Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Ltd • Bombardier Aerospace • Next Generation Compressor • Pratt&Whitney Canada • Landing Gear of the Future • Heroux-Devtek Inc. • Integrated Avionics for Cockpit Applications • Esterline CMC Electronics • Integrated Modular Avionics for Critical Systems • Thales Canada Inc.

9. SA²GE: Governance MDEIE Board Regroupement pour le développement de l’avion plus écologique (A Not-for-Profit Organization) Director Dominique Sauvé Project Office Landing Gear Héroux-Devtek Project Office Composite Structures Bell - Bombardier Project Office Next Generation Compressor Pratt & Whitney Partners Partners Partners Project Office Integrated Cockpit Avionics Esterline CMC Project Office Integrated Modular Avionics for Critical Systems Thales Partners Partners

10. Aircraft Composite Fuselage StructuresBell Helicopter - Bombardier Technologies AutomatedFiber Placement Optimizedprocess Compression Molding Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding New Generation Electro-magnetic and Lightning Strike Protection ThermoplasticManufacturing Processes BondingProcesses Non-Destructive Inspection for Superior Detection

11. Aircraft Composite Fuselage StructuresBell Helicopter - Bombardier Technologies AutomatedFiber Placement Optimizedprocess Compression Molding Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding New Generation Electro-magnetic and Lightning Strike Protection ThermoplasticManufacturing Processes BondingProcesses WeightReduction Non-Destructive Inspection for Superior Detection Superior Quality Advantages Reduction of ManufacturingTouchHours and Cycle Time Reduction of ManufacturingWaste

12. Aircraft Composite Fuselage StructuresBell Helicopter - Bombardier Structural Assembly Systems Integration Flight Test High plant energyoverheadcarried by eachhelicopter • Prod. cycle time: long • Parts list: long • Inventory: large • Tooling: numerous • Shop floor: large • ManualAssembly: • Costly • Significant composite materialwaste • Possibility of errors Current situation: Manualassemblywithsignificantmaterialwaste ….. COST RawMaterial Long production cycle time ….. Materialwaste TIME

13. Aircraft Composite Fuselage StructuresBell Helicopter - Bombardier Structural Assembly Systems Integration Flight Test High plant energyoverheadcarried by eachhelicopter Current situation: Manualassemblywithsignificantmaterialwaste Goal: Automatedassemblywithlowermaterialwaste ….. COST RawMaterial Structural Assembly Systems Integration Flight Test Long production cycle time Lower plant energy overhead carried by each helicopter Rawmaterials ….. COST Shorterprod. cycle time Materialwaste Lowerwaste TIME TIME

14. Aircraft Composite Fuselage StructuresBell Helicopter - Bombardier • Benefits • Production cycle time:shorter • (lower plant energy overhead attributed to each helicopter) • Automatedassembly: • High level jobs (advanced technologies) • Significantlyreduced composite • materialwaste • Reducedpossibility of errors(higherquality) • Parts list: shorter(reduced management cost) • Inventory: reduced(reducedinventorycost) • Tooling: reduced(simplifiedassemblyprocesses) • Shop floor: reduced(increased production capacity) Goal: Automatedassemblywithlowermaterialwaste Structural Assembly Systems Integration Flight Test Lower plant energy overhead carried by each helicopter Rawmaterials COST Shorterprod. cycle time Lowerwaste TIME • ReducedEnvironmental Impact and IncreasedProductivity

15. Engine and Propeller Integrated Controls (FADEC) Engine and Propeller Aerodynamic Integration Low Emission Combustion Chamber Aerodynamic Air Inlet Advanced Aerodynamics and Cooling Techniques Advanced 6A-1C Compressor HybridDiffuser Increased Use of Electrical Systems Compact Centrifugal Rotors Latest Generation Alloys Next Generation Compressor Pratt & Whitney Canada

16. Engine and Propeller Integrated Controls (FADEC) Engine and Propeller Aerodynamic Integration Low Emission Combustion Chamber Aerodynamic Air Inlet Advanced Aerodynamics and Cooling Techniques Advanced 6A-1C Compressor HybridDiffuser Increased Use of Electrical Systems Compact Centrifugal Rotors Latest Generation Alloys Next Generation Compressor Pratt & Whitney Canada SA2GE

17. Next Generation Compressor Pratt & Whitney Canada • Technologies Involved • Advanced Aerodynamics • Optimized aerodynamic profiles • Advanced helico-centrifugal rotor • Hybrid diffuser • Low speed idling characteristics • Better management of the gap at the blade tip • Advanced Materials for Rotors • Advanced manufacturing technologies • More Electric Engine • Permanent Magnet Starter-Generator

18. Next Generation Compressor Pratt & Whitney Canada • Sub-Project Primary Goal • Design and demonstrate a more ecological high performance compressor with the best compression ratio for a single shaft compressor, with enhanced durability and a reduced frontal cross-section • Benefit • Significant increase in compressor and turbine efficiencies

19. Landing Gear of the Future Héroux-Devtek • Objectives • Materials and manufacturing processes with a lesser impact on the environment • Materials and configuration leading to a lower weight and a lower acoustic signature in flight • More intelligent components • Easier to command • Easier to inspect • Benefits • A lower environmental impact from component manufacturing and maintenance • A lower noise signature in flight • A lower weight leading to a lower fuel consumption

20. Integrated Avionics for Cockpit Applications - Esterline CMC • Avionics Core Architecture • Lighter, more compact avionics suites. Optimized performance due to better data sharing, less latency, better user interface, improved display capability • Reduced wire weight • Easier technology insertion allowing access to functions optimized for NextGen and SESAR

21. Efficient, Flexible Routing Vector Vector - - Free Free Streamlined Streamlined Arrivals Arrivals Departures Departures All All - - Weather Weather Approaches Approaches Integrated Avionics for Cockpit Applications - Esterline CMC • Avionics Technologies are Critical to Reducing the Impact on the Environment • More direct routes – reduced fuel consumption and gas emissions • Less waiting to take off and land • Better airport access • Better dispatch rates • Flight plans adjusted due to weather and other factors • Less congestion through greater predictability of estimated time of arrival

22. Integrated Modular Avionics for Critical Systems (IMACS) - Thales Canada • Sub-Project Primary Goal • The development of a new vision for tomorrow’s embedded system architecture based on highly integrated, modular, reconfigurable and versatile building blocks Current Technologies ModularAvionics Technologies courantes multiple functions 1 box = and multiple suppliers 1 function= multiple boxes Thales Proprietary

23. Integrated Modular Avionics for Critical Systems (IMACS) - Thales Canada REU Electric Flight Controls Fuel Management • Integration of «time critical » systems on a modularplatform REU IMA 1 IMA 2 RDC REU AircraftCritical Data Network REU IMA 3 IMA 4 RDC REU Brakes Steering REU Thales Proprietary

24. Integrated Modular Avionics for Critical Systems (IMACS) - Thales Canada REU REU • Integrate in a modular architecture all on-board systems with similar operating requirements LessRawMaterialNeeded AircraftWeightReduction Simplified Installation EasierAircraftManufacturing REU IMA 1 IMA 2 RDC REU REU AircraftCritical Data Network IMA 1 IMA 2 IMA 4 IMA 3 REU RDC REU RDC AircraftCritical Data Network REU REU IMA 3 IMA 4 RDC REU GreaterAircraftAvailability Easier Maintenance Simplified Life Cycle Management Thales Proprietary REU

25. Small and Medium EnterprisesPublic Research Centres • Potential Research Centres • CDCQ (Centre de Développement des Composites du Québec) • CNEC (Conseil National de Recherches du Canada) • CTA (Centre Technologique en Aérospatiale) • Centre de Formation Professionnelle Des Moulins) • École Polytechnique de Montréal • McGill University • Université de Sherbrooke • Université Laval • Potential SME • Air Data • Avior Integrated Products • Composites Atlantics (CAL) • Coriolis Composites Canada • Delastek • FDC Composites • L3-MAS • Maetta • Marquez • Meloche • Mésotec • PCM Innovations • Rasakti • Potential participants only. • Subject to the specificneeds of sub-projects and contractualagreementswithsub-project leaders.

26. Small and Medium EnterprisesPublic Research Centers • Sub-Project Needs • A number of SME and Public Research Centres were initially approached by sub-project industrial leaders to ascertain their desire to participate and to perform a preliminary evaluation of their capabilities • Sub-projects have since been progressing from general concepts to more precise definitions • Knowledge and technical capability gap analyses are taking place to identify which specific technology development and demonstrations are needed to fill the identified knowledge and technological capability gaps • SME and Public Research Centres best suited to the needs of the sub-projects will be selected by industrial leaders • It is possible that not all SME and Public Research Centres thatwereinitiallyapproached by industrial leaders willparticipate.

27. Small and Medium EnterprisesPublic Research Centers • Major developmental project requirements • Involve a number of Quebec SME • Flow contracts to Quebec SME • Flow contracts to Public Research Centres • Current status and projections by sub-project industrial leaders indicate that these requirements are being met • MobilizingActors of the Quebec Aerospace Sector • to Strengthenand Grow Our Aerospace Industry

28. Sustainable Development • Improved Aircraft Aerodynamics and Increased Engine Performance • Reduced fuel consumption • Manufacturing Processes and Materials with Reduced Environmental Impact • Reduction of material wasted during fabrication • Reduction of manufacturing cycle time • Reduction of structural component weight • More Intelligent, More Capable and More Integrated Avionics and Systems • Reduction of on-board equipment weight • More Innovative, More CompetitiveProducts

29. Economic Benefits • Advanced research conducted in Quebec, with Quebec SME and Public Research Centers • Approximately 75% of $150 M will be spent in Quebec • Using and growing knowledge of local workforce • Using and growing manufacturing capabilities of local supply chain • A more innovative and competitive industry and supply chain able to offer an enlarged portfolio of products and services • To the Quebec aerospace manufacturers • To international aerospace manufacturers • To other industries (trains, automobiles, etc…) • More Innovative, More CompetitiveProducts

30. Conclusions • Aerospace is a strategic sector for Quebec • With financial support from the Quebec Government, our industry is mobilizing to develop innovative design and manufacturing technologies and competitive on-board systems • In the process, we will strengthen our local supply chain, raise the overall competitiveness of our industry and reduce its impact on the environment • Mobilize. Innovate. • Become More Competitive. Prosper.

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