The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued the first airworthiness directive relating to the Airbus A380, mandating checks for cracking of vanes in Rolls-Royce Trent 900 high-pressure turbines.
Specialists from the General Electric and Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance working with Australian investigators are focusing on a failed nozzle guide vane as the suspected cause of an engine shutdown ...
MTU Maintenance is moving toward using its proprietary high-pressure turbine nozzle guide vane airfoil replacement repair for engines other than the CFM56-5B and CFM56-7, for which it was initially ...
Rolls-Royce has rolled out a modification to Trent 900 engines on the Airbus A380 to counter the vane-cracking issue outlined in a European airworthiness directive this week. The European Aviation ...
Rolls-Royce's 90,0000-square-ft Advanced Airfoil Machining Facility (AAMF) will produce turbine blades and nozzle guide vanes. PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va.—Aerospace engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is ...