RR Trent 1000 for the 787 first start up - On Schedule
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RR Trent 1000 for the 787 first start up - On Schedule
Rolls-Royce has successfully completed the first test bed run of its Trent 1000 engine, being developed for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The engine ran exactly to schedule against the date of 14 February set almost three years earlier.
As launch engine on the Boeing 787, the Trent 1000 is the first of the aircraft’s powerplants to run, and will also be the first in the air when it takes to the skies on a Rolls-Royce Boeing 747 flying test bed in the first quarter of 2007.
Following certification by the airworthiness authorities next summer, it will power the 787 Dreamliner’s first flight and will begin commercial operations with launch customer ANA (All Nippon Airways) in mid 2008.
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http://www.rolls-royce.com/media/showPR.jsp?PR_ID=40302
With kerosene prices where they are - efficient engines and fuel-saving airframes like these are the future of commercial aviation. Nice going RR !
As launch engine on the Boeing 787, the Trent 1000 is the first of the aircraft’s powerplants to run, and will also be the first in the air when it takes to the skies on a Rolls-Royce Boeing 747 flying test bed in the first quarter of 2007.
Following certification by the airworthiness authorities next summer, it will power the 787 Dreamliner’s first flight and will begin commercial operations with launch customer ANA (All Nippon Airways) in mid 2008.
More here:
http://www.rolls-royce.com/media/showPR.jsp?PR_ID=40302
With kerosene prices where they are - efficient engines and fuel-saving airframes like these are the future of commercial aviation. Nice going RR !
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Superb! 
A company to be proud of, and that's becoming rarer these days!
Wonder if they'd care to take over the running of UK plc? The current "administrators" (using the term loosely in their case) seem hell bent on killing it off!
A company to be proud of, and that's becoming rarer these days!
Wonder if they'd care to take over the running of UK plc? The current "administrators" (using the term loosely in their case) seem hell bent on killing it off!
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Proud of indeed! And just maybe I'm biassed 
but I always get a "feelgood" when I climb stairs (at some airports) and pass those big paraffin-guzzlers with the "Double R" on the sides
but I always get a "feelgood" when I climb stairs (at some airports) and pass those big paraffin-guzzlers with the "Double R" on the sides
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Have you seen the picture of the "modified 747" that will be used to "transport major assemblies from factory to factory"?
If Boeing could put 2 or maybe even 3 decks in that, and some windows, maybe the 380 would have competition! (or maybe I have just discovered the way that Boeing plan to avoid critisism and test the 797) - Remember - you heard it on PPRuNe
(Though one has to admit that it's butt-ugly
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If Boeing could put 2 or maybe even 3 decks in that, and some windows, maybe the 380 would have competition! (or maybe I have just discovered the way that Boeing plan to avoid critisism and test the 797) - Remember - you heard it on PPRuNe
(Though one has to admit that it's butt-ugly
)
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Originally Posted by woodpecker
35 years flying RR powered machines (Trident, 757, 767, 777) and never had a failure
35 years flying RR powered machines (Trident, 757, 767, 777) and never had a failure
One wonders how there could be so much variation in maintenance standards between airlines when the CAA oversee.........
Ah! Just answered my own question.
