Food for thought:
Stolen from Tech Log.
"A Rolls Royce engineer was interviewed on telly recently, and he held a blade (about 3 inches long) out of the power turbine in a Trent engine in the palm of his hand. Can't remember the exact text but I think he said that one blade took the same power out of the gasflow as a Formula one racing engine develops. And it sits in a gasflow which is at a temperature of more that twice the melting point of the blade. It's only because the blade's air cooled internally that it doesn't instantly melt.
Amazing stuff."
This could be quite interesting but make sure you cover a topic that is of interest to you. That will make it a hell of a lot easier.
As for contact info, stick your neck out and contact RR directly.
Hopefully someone here can give you further details on that or maybe even works for RR. (Derby I think)
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