Archive for the 'Engines' Category

Virgin Atlantic selects R-R engines for 787 fleet in US $2.6 billion deal (The Bulletin Panama)

Posted: 2008 Mar 31 - 14:42 • Virgin Atlantic, one of the world’s leading long-haul airlines, announced it has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines to power its Boeing 787-9 fleet.
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Virgin Atlantic selects R-R engines for 787 fleet in US $2.6 billion deal (The Bulletin Panama)

Posted: 2008 Mar 31 - 14:42 • Virgin Atlantic, one of the world’s leading long-haul airlines, announced it has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines to power its Boeing 787-9 fleet.
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Virgin Picks Rolls-Royce Engines for 15 Boeing 787s (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

March 3 (Bloomberg) — Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., the U.K. carrier controlled by billionaire Richard Branson, said it chose Rolls-Royce Group Plc engines to power its Boeing Co. 787 planes in a transaction valued at $2.6 billion.
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Virgin Atlantic Selects Rolls-Royce Engines to Power Its 787 Fleet in a Deal Worth $2.6BN (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Virgin Atlantic, one of the world’s leading long-haul airlines, today announced it has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines to power its Boeing 787-9 fleet of aircraft.
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Vietnam Airlines flies higher (Vietnam Net)

VietNamNet Bridge – Giant GE is working with Vietnam Airlines on selecting engines for the Boeing 787. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is going to kick start the construction of an aircraft component production facility early next year.
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Advertisement starts (Tiscali)

The one in Singapore will assemble and test engines starting with the Trent 1000 for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Trent XWB for the Airbus A350 XWB.
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Qatar Airways selects GEnx and GE90 engines for its new Boeing 787 and 777 Aircraft (AME Info)

Qatar Airways has chosen the GEnx engine to power its 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft as well as ordered five Boeing 777 Freighters powered by GE90-115B engines.
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Boeing may fail to win $20b order by Emirates (Khaleej Times)

BOSTON/SEATTLE — Boeing Co. may fail to win a 100- plane order from Emirates because the biggest version of its 787 Dreamliner lacks sufficient power from its General Electric Co. engines, the Middle Eastern airline said.
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Airline says Boeing 787-10 engines need more power (Tulsa World)

NO DEAL? Clark: Emirates executive thinks the Boeing 787-10 needs more power.
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Goodrich Ships First Thrust Reversers for Boeing 787 Dreamliner (ThomasNet)

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 15 - Goodrich Corporation (NYSE:GR) has delivered its first set of Boeing 787 Dreamliner thrust reversers to be installed on Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines used in the 787 flight test program scheduled to begin later this year. Goodrich shipped the thrust reversers from its Chula Vista, Calif. site, which also performed final […]