limited company industry gas turbine engines founded 14 october 1969 headquarters moor lane derby de24 8bj area served uk italy germany products rb199 parent rolls royce plc mtu avio website turbo union turbo union limited is a joint venture between three european aero engine manufacturers fiatavio now avio mtu aero engines and rolls royce . contents 1 products 2 structure 3 production sites 4 history 4.1 management 5 references 6 see also products edit the company s only product is the rb199 a three spool turbofan developed specifically for the panavia tornado . 1 structure edit the ownership of the company similarly split into 40 % rolls royce 40 % mtu aero engines 20 % avio s.p.a. formerly fiat aviazione 2 it had an office on arabellastra e in munich near both namma and panavia but the head office was initially at filton . it was known as rolls royce turbo union ltd. turbo union was a fully integrated and collaborative european company whose formal language was english by kind and charitable agreement of the governments concerned . the organisation of the company was of fg functional group kind for example fg4 was concept design engineering fg6 was customer support engineering and provisioning and so on . each fg was chaired by a european person included people from all three companies as required . the fg also had subgroups for example fg4 4 was development fg6 2 was ftc flight test centre support . the company is now based at the home of rolls royce in derby 3 but also has an office at the panavia head office in germany . production sites edit turbo union as a whole designed and produced the engine albeit the ga general arrangement drawing was assembled at bristol filton from all three partners inputs . over 2000 engines were built up to and including the 1990s from components sourced in all three countries in approximate proportion to their governmental support . 4 the raf had engines assembled and supported from bristol the german air force and navy from munich and the italian air force from turin torino . history edit when it was formed in october 1969 it was claimed to be the largest aero engine consortium in the world . the rb199 would be europe s biggest ever military engine programme and was based at filton . development of the rolls royce rb199 started in september 1969 prior to the formation of turbo union . the first rb199 engine ran in september 1971 with the first flight in a tornado in august 1974 . 5 the engines are all fadec controlled with slightly different engine versions for each tornado variant . the french took no part in the european project not least because it was a direct competitor of the snecma m53 engine . however later in the 1980s the french joined mtu turbomeca rolls royce to build the mtr mtr390 helicopter engine . in 1983 a swiss organisation the arbeitsgruppe f r luft und raumfahrt alr based in zurich proposed an aircraft called the piranha 6 powered by a single rb199 . the first prototype eurofighter planes used the rb199 engine until in june 1995 when the first ej200 engined plane took off from turin . 6 its predecessor the british aerospace eap also used the engines . management edit the first chairman was hugh conway the managing director of the bristol filton plant of rolls royce . marshal of the royal air force denis spotswood was chairman from 1975 80 . for many years the designer of the pegasus engine gordon lewis was managing director . previous to him was martin steinberger of motoren und turbinen union mtu based in munich . karlheinz koch was md until 2008 . rb199 engine references edit turbounion . turbounion . retrieved 1 january 2016 . skinner stephen 2012 . british aircraft corporation a history . crowood . isbn 9781847974501 . retrieved 1 january 2016 . turbo union limited . duedil . retrieved 1 january 2016 . turbo union pdf . flight international 183 . 19 january 1980 . panavia tornado celebrates 40 years of first flight . panavia . retrieved 1 january 2016 . eurofighter typhoon . eurojet . retrieved 1 january 2016 . gunston bill 2006 . world encyclopedia of aero engines 5th edition . phoenix mill gloucestershire england uk sutton publishing limited . isbn 0 7509 4479 x. see also edit eurojet turbo gmbh aerospace industry in the united kingdom rolls royce turbomeca limited set up in 1965 between rolls royce and france s turbomeca to make the rolls royce turbomeca adour for the sepecat jaguar v t e man turbo mtu aero engines turbofans 730 ej200 rb153 rb193 turbofan rb199 superfan v2500 turboprops turboshafts 720 721 6012 6022 mtr390 tp400 joint development aeroengines v t e rolls royce limited aero engines piston engines by name buzzard condor crecy eagle v 12 eagle xvi x 16 eagle h 24 exe falcon goshawk griffon hawk kestrel merlin pennine peregrine r vulture by company designation pv12 type h type g type f type r turbojets avon derwent nene olympus olympus 593 rb106 rb108 rb145 rb162 rb176 soar tay thames viper welland turbofans adour 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