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Airbus Dreamliner Dossier Revealed
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Jon Ostrower
on December 3, 2008 4:30 PM
In addition, Airbus believes that both the General Electric GEnx-1B and Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engines are rumoured to have missed specific fuel consumption targets by 2-3% and 3-4% respectively. "We've continued to make tweaks to the engine and we will make fuel spec when we reach entry into service," GE said.
Rolls-Royce did not return calls seeking comment.
Airbus speculates that
a rumoured design change to the Trent 1000 low-pressure turbine could require Dreamliner One to switch to GEnx engines
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Though, a 787 programme source confirms that Rolls-Royce compatible pylons had been recently reinstalled on Dreamliner One.
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