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The industry’s largest cargo door has moved from Spain to Toulouse for installation on a test aircraft, signalling a shift from assembly into testing phase.
Rolls-Royce is investing £55m and recruiting more than 300 front-line staff, split between its operations in Derby, UK, and Dahlewitz, Germany. About two thirds of the jobs will be created in Derby.
The company says that the UltraFan development will enable it to offer a portfolio of two-shaft, three-shaft, direct drive and geared propulsion solutions to power future aircraft.
In expanding the plant, FACC is drawing on a high degree of automation and state-of-the-art machinery for the production of lightweight components for commercial aircraft and business jets.
The demonstrator includes Advance3 core architecture, combined with ALECSys lean burn combustion system, carbon titanium fan blades and a composite casing. The power gearbox has run at 64MW, an aerospace record.
The UltraFan demonstrator has a fan diameter of 140 inches and offers a 25% fuel efficiency improvement compared with the first generation of Trent engine.
Rolls-Royce says testing ALECSys low-emissions technology in flight will allow the verification of altitude operability performance and provides experience of operating a lean-burn system ahead of entry into service.
The new generation engine will be 25 per cent more fuel efficient than the original Trent 700, and its UltraFan ITP features a new architecture and light-weight composite materials.
The Trent XWB-84 entered into service in 2015. The 1000th engine was produced at Rolls-Royce's Derby assembly line and will power an Airbus A350-900.
Larger than a football pitch, Testbed 80 was designed with distinctive technologies and systems which are more capable and complex. It has conducted its first run on a Trent XWB engine earlier this year.
Three years after delivering the first fan case for the Trent 1000, UMW Aerospace is dispatching another milestone unit to the Rolls-Royce factory at the Seletar Aerospace Park in Singapore.