PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - American twins,Brit triple spool engines?
Old 9th Mar 2011, 22:41
  #24 (permalink)  
HarryMann
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Herts, UK
Posts: 748
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
The development of the original, 3 spool RB211 sent Rolls Royce broke!
It was fundamentally the delay due to problems with the hybrid fan construction (damage tolerance/l.e. erosion) that was responsible, not the choice of a 3-spool configuration..
HarryMann is offline