Rolls-Royce Reveals Blade Problems in Newest Engine

Rolls-Royce estimates that all variants of the Trent 1000 would cost around $3.1 billion from 2017-2023.
Credit: Rolls-Royce
After many years of embarrassing durability problems with a series of Trent 1000 engines, the model’s newest iteration, The Trent 1000 TEN, was supposed to mark a clean break with mistakes of the past. Unfortunately for the manufacturer, that is no longer the case, as Rolls-Royce has just announced...

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