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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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  Late growth spurt for Trent XWB - Udvar-Hazy strikes again?

  Posted by Guy Norris 4:43 AM on Jun 06, 2011

  Five years after Steven Udvar-Hazy, then chairman of ILFC, began his successful campaign to force Airbus into a major redesign of the A350, could his influence be telling once more... Read More >>

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  787 Rolls-Royce Package B back in the air

  Posted by Guy Norris 11:34 PM on Jun 05, 2011

  Boeing flew ZA004, the first 787 to fly with the improved Rolls-Royce ‘Package B’ Trent 1000, for more than four hours on June 5. According to FlightAware, ZA004 last f... Read More >>

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  787 engine update

  Posted by Guy Norris 10:39 PM on Jan 14, 2011

  Boeing is preparing to perform what is thought to be the first de-rate engine tests on the 787 since the model began flying in December 2009. Until now all 787s have been powered b... Read More >>

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  Qantas A380 - Prime Suspect Identified

  Posted by Guy Norris 10:34 PM on Nov 10, 2010

  The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has revealed the first clues as to what may have caused the catastrophic failure of the Trent 900 engine powering a Qantas A380 on Nov 4.... 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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  Qantas Engine Mishap

  Posted by Adrian Schofield 7:48 AM on Nov 04, 2010

  A Qantas Airbus A380 flight was forced to turn back to Singapore on Nov. 4 because of the apparent uncontained failure of a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine soon after takeoff. The car... Read More >>

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  Second GE 787 set to fly

  Posted by Guy Norris 12:29 AM on Sep 30, 2010

  Boeing flight test plans to conduct a final “safety walk” for the second, and final General Electric GEnx-1B powered 787 test aircraft tomorrow as a prelude to first fl... Read More >>

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