CFM International joint-venture partners GE and Snecma are in the midst of a huge global industrial effort to achieve an unprecedented scale of civil engine production, with Leap output set to go from zero to over 1,800 powerplants annually by 2020. "For us the subject is production," said CFM president Jean-Paul Ebanga at a Paris air show media briefing. "It's all about the coming ramp-up of Leap and the transition from the CFM56 to Leap." There is a bulging Leap order-book - some 2,717 sales of CFM's new model were booked in 2014 alone, with another 442 added in the period to 31 May this year and a further 500 during the Le Bourget show.
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