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 ...fter the completion of its development, certification and flight-test programme,
the Trent 500 entered service on a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-600 on 1 August
2002. The development testing was the most successful that Rolls-Royce and its
programme partners had completed. All engine...
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 ...ars OT riying expe
have been amassed
preparation for the entry into
service of the Trent 500.
The Trent 500 is the latest member
of the world-leading Trent family of
engines. As the most successful and
advanced range of civil aero engines
ever produced, collectively the Trent
...
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 ...ROPULSION
Rolls-Royce is half-way through development of the Trent 500,
sole powerplant for the Airbus A340-500/600. Tests so far
have shown it will exceed performance estimates
Trent 500 shapes up
JULIAN MOXON/PARIS
TIM HALL/CUTAWAY
WITH ITS Trent family...
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 ...he A320 family.
The Trent family's development began
with the 68,O0O-72,0O01b thrust Trent 700,
the first engine to enter service powering
the A330-200/300. Selection of the 53,000-
56,000 thrust Trent 500 was announced at
the 1997 Paris air show, the engine having
been the subject of an "exemplary" devel
opment programme. According to R-R's
civil aerospace president, John Chefnns,
"all m...
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 ....
The A380 marks the fourth milestone in the
UK engine manufacturer's successful Trent
family development strategy as well as its
third Airbus application after the Trent 700
on the A330 and the Trent 500 on the A340-
500/600.
Originally drawn up around the thrust
requirements of the Boeing 747-500X/600X,
the Trent 900 was conceived as a combina
tion of the 2.9m diameter Trent 800 (Boeing...
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 ... the potential for payload/
range shortfall as a result of
increased weight and the impact
on predicted fuel burn perfor
mance from the aircraft's 53,000-
55,0001b-thrust (236-245kN) Rolls-
Royce Trent 500 engines.
Airbus says the resulting "get
well" programme combines BAE
design modifications to the wing
structure with a R-R planned
The scale of the weight issue is believed to have been...
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 ...ROPULSION
"It is by far the fastest ramp-up of a big-fan engine programme
we have ever seen" - Ian Kinnear, Trent 500/Trent 900 director
casings, in addition to those already installed on
the intermediate- and low-pressure turbines.
This followed the decision to scale die engine
core from that of the Tr...
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 ...ompany employs 260 staff.
Robert Crooke, managing director
of CSE Aviation will be replaced by
Paul Lever as chairman and Mick
Daw as chief executive. •
Japanese negotiate
with Rolls-Royce for
Trent 500 engine role
PAUL LEWIS/SINGAPORE
KAWASAKI Heavy Industries (KHI) and Ishikawajima-Ha-
rima Heavy Industries (THI) are
negotiating with Rolls-Royce to
take a share in the development and ...
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 ...Royce has already started testing new compressor
technology on Trent engines
800 development team, the tech
nology was made available to
BM W Rol Is-Royce which, as a risk-
sharing partner in the Trent 500
programme, is the design authority
for the latter engine's HPC.
Craig says R-R is satisfied that
the new blades will perform reli
ably on production Trent 500s,
although the company ha...
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 ..., unless prohibited by a court
injunction. In May, United and its
regional affiliate, Atlantic Coast
Airlines, began offering Dulles-
LaGuardia shuttle service, also
using 50-seat CRJs. •
Airbus Trent 500 prepared for first test runs
ROLLS-ROYCE'S Trent 500 turbofan for the Airbus
Industrie A340-500/600 was
expected to begin runs at the com
pany's test site at Derby, UK, as
Flight Intern...
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 ... of
DC-lOs if required. •
Kawasaki/Rolls-Royce talks given new impetus
LONG-RUNNING negotia tions between Kawasaki
Heavy Industries (KHI) and Rolls-
Royce on a Japanese risk sharing
stake in the Trent 500 and 8140
turbofans have taken on renewed
impetus, witii die hope of an agree
ment being reached in time for the
Farnborough air show to be held in
early September.
KHI has confirmed th...
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 ...ircraft.
"We've the core opportunity to
do a new engine for that in a
timescale that will satisfy Boeing,"
says R-R chief executive John
Rose. He adds that it would be "... a
development of the Trent 500,
what we call die Trent 600, which
would be rebladed".
Boeing is studying the 747-
400IGW as an alternative to the
now shelved, and more ambitious,
-500X and -600X derivatives. Two
ver...
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 ...uropean, also
holds obvious attractions.
A key issue for Lockheed Martin
in pulling the two aerospace giants
closer remains transforming
Airbus from a consortium into a
company. •
Snecma holds Trent 500 workshare talks
SNECMA IS IN TALKS with Rolls-Royce on taking up to a
10% workshare stake in the latter's
new Trent 500. The engine has
been selected for the Airbus
Industrie A340-500 a...
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 ...re R-R enjoys
an advantage over the Engine
Alliance.
The US partnership has offered a
similar capability to Air France as
part of its order for 10 GP720O-
powered A380s. R-R's earlier pro
posed Trent 500/700 overhaul joint
venture with SR Technics - Temro -
collapsed along with Swissair and
its order for Trent 500-powered
Airbus A340-600s. Lufthansa also
has A340-600s on order and was
a...
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 ...ke Hewett, chief engineering test pilot for
the next-generation 737, and Joe MacDonald, 777 senior project engineering pilot, flew the aircraft
to Paris. Paris First News starts on P6
Airbus makes Trent 500
deal with Rolls-Royce
JULIAN MOXON/PARIS
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has struck a non-exclusive deal
with Rolls-Royce for the supply of
its Trent 500 engines.
The agreement ends Airbus's
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 ...irbus is flight-testing the Trent 500 (right) on a modified A340-300
nothing beats running it to get experience."
Problems during testing have been limited to
minor failures in the turbine area, for which fixes
have been des...
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 ...th derivative, pointing to a
market for only 500 aircraft over
the next 20 years. The US manu
facturer, however, would appear to
have the most the lose, given
the $5 billion of business the
R-R Trent 500 already has on
the rival A340-500/600.
Airbus is believed to be con
sidering sooner than expected
a second engine application on
the A340, based on a scaled-up
version of the PW8000 ge...
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 ...ales of the three engine
derivatives.
The company has committed
itself to develop the 463kN
(104,000lb)-dirust derivative of the
Trent 800, the 8104, for the Boeing
777-200/300X; the 236-276kN
Trent 500 for the Airbus A340-
500/600; and the 289kN Trent
600, which will have applications
on the proposed growth versions of
the Boeing 747-400, and the
stretched 767-400ER.
R-R was selected ...
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 ...finish
Rolls-Royce has completed the first rig tests of an advanced, low-weight fan-
containment system for the Trent 900, destined for the Airbus A380.
Tests, although conducted on a 2.47m (8.1ft) Trent 500-sized fan assem
bly and containment unit, effectively served as a good proof-of-concept test
of the scaled-up Trent 900 system, says chief engineer Rob Savidge. A sec
ond full-scale rig t...
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