Rolls-Royce Making Progress On Trent 1000 Engine Upgrade Written 20 July 2020
Trent 1000 on a Boeing 787 prototype | MilborneOne; Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 3.0
Aviation International News reports that Rolls-Royce “continues to report ‘good progress’ on fixing durability problems with the Trent 1000 engine, adding that it has achieved the target of single-digit numbers of aircraft grounded by the end of the second quarter.” This update came after a July 9 statement where the company said, “We have now reached a position where there are zero Boeing 787 aircraft on the ground (AOG) due to Trent 1000 durability-related issues.” The Trent 1000 engine upgrades “include technical solutions as well as increasing the availability of spare engines at the operator level, so airlines can more quickly swap engines when a problem arises and maintain flight schedules.”
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