Eurofighter Typhoon has clocked more than 300,000 flying hours since the entry-into-service in August 20003 with German Air Force. Eurof...
Eurofighter Typhoon has clocked more than 300,000 flying hours since the entry-into-service in August 20003 with German Air Force. Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH confirmed the milestone adding that, with 571 aircraft ordered and 438 delivered, the program has “delivered unprecedented levels of reliability”.
The performance of the Eurofighter Typhoon was confirmed by a recent Whitehall Report published by the Royal United Services Institute which said: “The Eurofighter’s combination of high thrust-to-weight ratio, manoeuvrability at all speeds, 65,000-foot service ceiling, supercruise capability, powerful radar and large missile load ensures that it outclasses any currently operational fighter aircraft in the world with the exception of the US F-22 Raptor.”
The first 5,000 flying hours were achieved in November 2005. 10,000 hours came in August 2006 and 20,000 in May 2007. By August 2008, the Eurofighter Typhoon fleet had surpassed 50,000 hours and 100,000 flying hours was reached in January 2011.
In July 2014 the consortia announced that the 250,000 flying hour milestone had been reached while, at the same time, Eurojet, the makers of the Typhoon’s EJ200 engines, celebrated half a million flying hours on the aircraft.
With a length of 16 m and span of 11m, the canard-delta wing, the Eurofighter Typhoon multi role fighter can fly at Mach 2 speed , with its two eurojet engines rated at 90 kN each.
Backbone of European defense, the Eurofighter Typhoon is a highly agile aircraft, designed to be a supremely effective dogfighter when in combat with other aircraft, and has been described as second only to the F-22 Raptor even though the Raptor is nearly twice the cost.
It is operated by UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Austria.
