Engines on Virgin's 747s and A340s
 

Can anyone enlighten me as to which powerplants Virgin uses for their four-holers!

I can't personally, but a search of virgin airlines aircraft engines? on Google can (See first result).

IIRC they use the GE engines on our 747 simulators. The 340-300 uses CFMs and the 340-600 Trents.

the trick is in two parts
 

G'day Alan!

Swotting up are we? Well besides engines you can find weights, airframe hours and a lot more for free.

The CAA gives help to impending interviewees on their G-INFO site but there is a trick. You need to know how the CAA name aircraft and the proper name of the airline. Failure to get it right on either or both counts leads to no information being found!

Find the GINFO file on www.caa.co.uk and in the aircraft type or name box just type * for a wildcard. In the registered owner box type Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd, and hit search. All 32 Virgin aircraft appear on a list with links to their histories.

You get quite a bit of info but I believe the 13 744's are all CF6-80C2B1F's, the 9 small 340's are a mixture of CFM56-5C's 2's and 4's and the biggies RR Trent 556-61's.

No balloons, Concordes, space shuttles, jump jets

Good Luck!!

Best Rgds job hunting

enicalyth

Jeez enicalyth, I thought you'd gone fishing. What, aren't the fish biting any more? Good to see you back elder statesman, I guarantee you'll get more bites on Pprune than anywhere else.

Maybe you should change your call-sign to "Dame Nellie Melba", another great comeback>:O

Welcome back,

Old Smokey