Rolls Faces Tighter Schedule As First Trent 1000 TEN Flies

Credit: Rolls-Royce
LOS ANGELES—Rolls-Royce has begun flight tests of the upgraded Trent 1000 TEN for Boeing’s 787 but faces a compressed schedule to meet entry-into-service targets in 2017 and 2018. The new Trent derivative, which incorporates improvements from Rolls’s Advance 3 demonstrator and XWB engine programs...

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