What is clear is that there was an uncontained engine failure on one of the Roll-Royce Trent 900 engines that sent debris to the ground as well as up through the wing, leaving a hole there.

Rolls is putting the Trent ... 900 engine poised for 1% fuel-burn improvement “We’ve had a number of problems, being open and honest, over the years. Not just us,” says Simon Burr, Rolls ...

Like the other engines in the Trent family, the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 is a high-bypass turbofan. Originally intended for use on a possible Boeing 747 variant, but repurposed after the project was ...

Airlines that use Rolls-Royce Group Plc Trent 900 engines, the type that exploded Nov. 4 on an Airbus A380, no longer need to perform “intrusive” inspections on their engines, the European ...

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) moved quickly on an August Rolls-Royce recommendation to mandate inspections of Trent 900 engines undergoing overhaul work to ensure that routine ...

Rolls-Royce has introduced the first of a two-phase performance improvement for the Trent 900 engines that power the Airbus A380 airliner. Principles in motorcycle engine design make sense for ...

Users of Rolls-Royce Group Plc Trent 900 engines, the type that exploded on a Qantas Airways Ltd. flight on Nov. 4, should install software in order to detect turbine discs spinning too quickly ...

ROLLS-ROYCE has won its first new order for the Trent 900 since the failure of one of the engines on a Qantas A380 flight forced to land in Singapore last year. Asiana Airlines, the South Korean ...

Qantas Airways has detailed the history of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 powerplant variants that power its Airbus A380s in the affidavit and claim it filed against the engine manufacturer in ...