ZH588 (or Eurofighter 2000 DA2) first
flew on the 6th of April 1994, piloted by Chris Yeo, BAe's
Director of Flight Operations, Warton. This picture is
of flight 9, flown by John Turner, the Project
Pilot at BAE SYSTEMS for the Typhoon from 1992-2000)
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TYPE
Known variously as the Eurofighter 2000,
EF2000 and now the Eurofighter
Typhoon
Single seater, twin engined, front line air superiority
fighter, with secondary ground attack and tactical reconnaissance
capabilities
MANUFACTURER
Consortium of four Eurofighter partner nations, UK
(33%), Germany (33%), Italy
(21%) and Spain (13%)
ENGINE
- Two EJ-200 two spool turbo fan engines with reheat
- 20,000 lbf (90 kN) with reheat
- 13,500 lbf (60 kN) without reheat
DIMENSIONS
- span : 10.95m
- length : 15.96
- height : 5.28
- wing area : 50m²
- foreplane area : 2.4m²
- leading edge sweep 53°
WEIGHTS
- Weight Empty : 9,750kg
- Max Take-off weight: 21,000kg
PERFORMANCE
- Maximum speed : 1500mph or more, Mach 2+
- g limits : +9g to -3g
- Landing runway required : 700m
- T/O runway required : 300m
- Combat radius lo-lo-lo : 600km
- Combat radius hi-lo-hi : 1400km
FIRST FLIGHT
- EAP (Experimental Aircraft Program) airframe first
flew in August 1986
- Eurofighter as it is today first flew on 27th March
1994
AVIONICS
- ECR90 multi-mode Doppler radar
- (APG-65 radar for German versions)
- Quadruplex digital fly by wire system
- Pilot voice recognition system
- Aerosystems IMRS Integrated Monitoring and Recording
System
- DASA digital engine control system
- EuroDASS Defensive Aids Sub-System
- BAe Systems TERPROM ground proximity warning system
WEAPONS
- up to 10 ASRAAMs
- 13 hardpoints capable of lifting 6,500kg
- 27mm Mauser cannon
NOTES
- Delivery to UK squadrons is now expected in June
of 2002
- Initial spread of orders between the four nations:
- UK takes 232
- Germany takes 180
- Italy takes 121
- Spain takes 87
- Greece has recently agreed to buy between 60 and
90
- 70% of the aircraft's surface area is made of carbon
fibre composite
UPDATE 2003
On June 30 2003 the RAF accepted its first Typhoon into
service. It was a T.1 two-seater version, ZJ803.
Two seat variants will be
designated T.1 or T.1A depending
on production batch, while
the single seaters will be
Typhoon F.2s.
UPDATE 2005
| Requirements
by nation |
| RAF
(UK) |
232 |
195
single, 37 twin |
| AMI
(Italy) |
121 |
106
single, 15 twin |
| GAF
(Germany) |
180 |
147
single, 33 twin |
| EdA
(Spain) |
86 |
71
single, 15 twin |
ZH588, the
second Eurofighter to fly,
the German DA1 98+29 being
the first, nine days previously.
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