EADS Mako/HEAT

The EADS Mako/High Energy Advanced Trainer, called Mako/HEAT, was a proposed single-engine, high-performance jet trainer and light attack aircraft that was never built. It grew out of the AT-2000 programme launched in 1989 by Dornier and Aermacchi; Aermacchi withdrew in the mid 1990s and, after DASA merged into EADS, EADS became the prime authority. The design used a faceted exterior and composite construction, a reprogrammable quadruplex fly-by-wire system and a single General Electric F414M turbofan, selected in December 2002. EADS marketed it for the Advanced European Jet Pilot Training programme and to the South African, South Korean and United Arab Emirates air forces, but no launch customer committed, and work was reportedly shelved by February 2009.