SES: Rolls Royce - Jaguar Adour Mk106 Engine Management System

The SES S3DR solid state data recorder was selected by Rolls Royce to provide a data recording equipment for monitoring the performance of the Adour Mk106 Engine Management System during the trials of the new engine for the Jaguar upgrade programme.

Working closely with Rolls Royce and Lucas aerospace, SES developed and delivered the S3DR data recorder very early in the programme to allow appropriate data capture and recording during all flight trials.

The captured data is recorded on a PCMCIA flash disk and is then later analysed on a PC-based analysis tool. The supplied equipment has performed faultlessly capturing many hours of engine performance data during the trials of the new engine.

Since the delivery of the S3DR product, SES have continued with the development of the product family and now have a number of data recording products developed for use in the aerospace marketplace. The Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour 106 is an upgrade to the reheated version of the engine. It matches the latest non-reheated variant for the BAE Systems Hawk, the Mk871, with an international standard reheat system, offering greater hot-end life and additional power.

Rolls-Royce is contracted to supply 122 engines to BAE Systems to retrofit the RAF's fleet of GR3As and T4s. Earlier flight trials involved a single Mk106 engine, operating alongside one of the current RAF operational standard Mk104 engines in BAE Systems' Jaguar (XX108) which is the oldest flying - and the UK's first production - example of the aircraft.