Rolls-Royce Recovers Fuel-Burn Margin for 787 Flight Tests

Credit: ROLLS-ROYCE
Rolls-Royce will deliver an upgraded standard of the Trent 1000 for tests on the Boeing 787, which it says will bring the engine to within 1% of targeted fuel consumption at service entry. The improvements were validated in a demonstrator program completed in February that achieved a cruise specific...

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