Future products

Taking the best and making it better

Our technology baseline is the highest in the industry

Our Trent and our BR700 engine families are industry leaders in the markets they serve today. Building on these foundations, our product strategy aims to further improve efficiencies while meeting challenging environmental targets so that we are ideally positioned to power the aircraft of the future. We have launched a number of new engine demonstrator programmes to address these requirements across our Civil Aerospace portfolio, featuring new architectures and innovative technological improvements to deliver 2-shaft and 3-shaft engine solutions for future aircraft applications.

15:1
UltraFan bypass ratio – treble the Trent 700’s
60:1
Overall pressure ratio of Advance3
25%
UltraFan fuel efficiency improvement
50:1
Advance2 pressure ratio

Advance2: A New Era for 2-shaft jet engines

Combining new core designs and LP systems with new technologies, Advance2 is our eco-system for demonstrating future products in the large cabin corporate jet market. Packing even more efficiency into the same nacelle envelope to deliver improvements in SFC performance and an OPR of 50:1, while future-proofing on noise and emissions requirements.

Advance3: A New Era for 3-shaft jet engines

Demonstrating efficiency improvements for future 3-shaft engines, Advance3 combines our new core architecture with a lightweight, low-pressure (LP) system, our composite fan, lean burn combustion and a raft of innovative manufacturing and materials technologies including 3D printing and CMCs.

UltraFan®

Enhanced with further technologies and innovative high-temperature materials, UltraFan pushes the Advance3 core overall pressure ratio to more than 70:1 for a typical large engine application. UltraFan also features a new geared architecture (power gearbox introduced between the fan and intermediate pressure compressor) to ensure that the fan, compressors and turbines all continue to run at their optimum speed.