Powering the Whispering Giant
- The Trent 900 jet engine
The Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine power the world’s
largest airliner, the Airbus A380.
In February 2001,
Rolls-Royce announced the launch of one of the most
ambitious engineering programmes in the company’s
Civil Aerospace history – thus began an exciting
7-year programme to power the largest civil airliner
ever built.
The Trent 900 is the 4th member of the Trent family,
and holds pride of place as the largest jet engine ever
produced by Rolls-Royce.
‘Powering the Whispering Giant’ plots
the Trent 900 journey in photographs from concept to
design, development, testing, first flight on the A340
flying test bed, flight test on the A380, Route Proving,
Service Readiness and Entry into Service in October
2007.
“This colourful publication combines the
best images from throughout the programme, with detail
from each major step along the way, to offer the reader
a unique insight into one of the most public and exciting
new jet engine programmes ever undertaken”
. Paul Devaney, Author
Price: £18.99 including posting and packaging
to the UK.
You can buy the book online on the
Key Publishing website.
Key Publishing can be contacted on:
Tel: +44 (0) 1780 480404
Fax: +44 (0) 1780 757812
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