Company Watch - Rolls-Royce.Aug 13, 2007 Rolls-Royce Engine Certified For Boeing's 787 Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday its Trent 1000 engine had received its airworthiness air·wor·thy adj. air·wor·thi·er, air·wor·thi·est Being in fit condition to fly: an airworthy helicopter; airworthy avionics. certification, clearing the way for the first flight of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. Aug 8, 2007 Rolls-Royce Trent Rolls Royce Trent is a family of high bypass turbofan engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce. All are developments of the RB211 with thrust ratings of between 53,000 and 95,000 lbf (236 to 423 kN). 1000, launch engine for the 787, becoming the first engine to be validated concurrently under new regulatory procedures. The certification comes as scheduled and just 18 months after the engine's first ground run. Nine development engines have been used in ground testing and a further 10 will support inflight testing on four 787s. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Rolls, the results of rig and engine testing have allowed the Trent 1000 to be certificated with significant margins to CAEP CAEP Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians CAEP Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (ICAO) CAEP China Academy of Engineering Physics CAEP Certificat d'Aptitude a l'Exercice de la Profession 6 standards for all emissions. Aug 8, 2007 Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday its Trent 1000 engine had received its airworthiness certification, clearing the way for the first flight of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. GE Aviation has also developed an engine for the 787, which is the fastest selling airliner in Boeing's history. On a date symbolizing the plane's name, (70807) the seventh day of the eighth month of 2007, officials from the European Aviation Safety Agency European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is an agency of the European Union with offices in Cologne, Germany, which has been given specific regulatory and executive tasks in the field of civilian aviation safety. (EASA EASA European Aviation Safety Agency EASA European Advertising Standards Alliance (Brussels, Belgium) EASA European Association of Social Anthropologists EASA European Architecture Students Assembly EASA European Academic Software Award ) handed over the airworthiness certificate. A spokesman said the US Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control (FAA) also certified the engine on Tuesday. Aug 8, 2007 Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Pyramid Media Group / Air Travel Media. All rights reserved. |
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