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  Photos of Rolls-Royce Trent XWB in flight

  Posted by Guy Norris 3:31 AM on Feb 19, 2012

  Airborne at last, Rolls-Royce’s Trent XWB engine for the A350 XWB flew for the first time on an Airbus A380 testbed from Toulouse, France on Feb 19. The engine, which replace... Read More >>

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  787 - Package B tests completed

  Posted by Guy Norris 9:00 AM on Dec 01, 2011

  Boeing completed flight tests of the improved Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 “Package B” engines on 787 test aircraft ZA004 on Nov 28. The upgraded engine is designed to bring ... Read More >>

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  Rolls-Royce Trent XWB Silver Lining?

  Posted by Guy Norris 5:15 AM on Jun 19, 2011

  Now that Airbus is talking openly about the revised A350-1000, Rolls-Royce has finally broken cover on more details of its higher thrust version of the Trent XWB. The announcement ... Read More >>

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  Trent 900 Back Under Power

  Posted by Robert Wall 11:27 AM on Jan 11, 2011

  Qantas is returning its A380 to flights from Australia to Los Angeles.As part of that move, Rolls-Royce notes that "the Trent 900 fleet has returned to normal operation. All engine... Read More >>

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  Rolls' Septimana Horribilis

  Posted by Guy Norris 12:13 AM on Nov 06, 2010

  To cap off what must be one of its most miserable weeks since entering receivership in February 1971, Rolls-Royce ended Nov 5 with two more nightmares - another highly-publicized e... Read More >>

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  Rolls Rattled

  Posted by Robert Wall 5:17 PM on Nov 04, 2010

  For Rolls-Royce’s aircraft engine activities the timing of the Qantas QF32 engine incident could hardly come at a worse time. Although it is still not clear what actually c... Read More >>

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  Early Trent 900 Warning Sign

  Posted by Robert Wall 8:44 AM on Nov 04, 2010

  It is always dangerous to speculate about causes of incidents such as the Qantas A380 engine failure today, but there has been some evidence of Rolls-Royce Trent 900 problems.As ou... Read More >>

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  Surge in problems?

  Posted by Guy Norris 10:36 PM on Sep 15, 2010

  Just days after Scott Fancher, 787 program vice president and general manager, tentatively sounded cautious optimism over flight test progress, more bad news has come along for the... Read More >>

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  It is official - Trent 1000 issue prompts new 787 delay

  Posted by Guy Norris 5:47 AM on Aug 27, 2010

  Not unexpectedly, given the recent test incident concerning the Trent 1000 engine, Boeing tonight (Aug 26) confirmed that first 787 deliveries to launch customer All Nippon Airways... Read More >>

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  A350XWB Powers Up

  Posted by Robert Wall 11:29 AM on Jun 18, 2010

  General Electric has just been celebrating first flight of the GEnx-1B on the 787, so now it is Rolls-Royce's turn to reach a big milestone in the big-engine battle between the two... Read More >>

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