Snecma, Rolls Teams Demo Geared Open Rotors Under SAGE

Credit: SNEMCA/ONERA
The drive to satisfy the airlines' insatiable need for better fuel efficiency will take another step this summer when engineers from Europe's Clean Sky research program complete a feasibility study for installing a counter-rotating open-rotor engine on the side of an Airbus A340-600 flying testbed...

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