Rolls-Royce Begins Building First A350-1000 Flying Testbed Engine

Credit: Airbus Concept

As production of the Trent XWB-84 accelerates for the Airbus A350-900, Rolls-Royce is ramping up manufacturing work on the initial-test batch of the more powerful XWB-97 variant for the stretched A350-1000. The XWB-97 offers the highest thrust-production engine ever developed by Rolls-Royce, and...

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