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[standish11] 05/7/2017 08:17

* Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc : Jefferies raises target price to 1100p from 900p; buy

* Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc :JP Morgan raises target price to 950p from 780p;neutral

[standish11] 30/6/2017 08:06

BOC Aviation has placed an order for four Boeing 787-9s and will be leased to Spanish carrier Air Europa.

The Singapore-based lessor says in a statement that the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000-powered aircraft will be delivered in 2019. At list prices, the order is valued at $1.08 billion.

“We are delighted to add the Rolls-Royce powered Boeing 787-9 aircraft to our portfolio. This order is the company’s first for a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine, demonstrating our confidence in these fuel-efficient engines that deliver impressive performance,” says BOC Aviation managing director and chief executive Robert Martin.

[simongn] 26/6/2017 17:59

Sold up on Friday at 933.5 , maybe premature, time will tell. Lets hope it keeps going for all that hold :-)

[simongn] 23/6/2017 07:22

"Rolls-Royce has opened a new service delivery centre (SDC) at Royal Air Force Lossiemouth in Scotland, the company announced on 19 June.

Established in partnership with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation and the UK Ministry of Defence, the SDC will support the resident fleet of Typhoon aircraft."

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[rogerrail] 22/6/2017 12:49

Another potential $1+billion on the cards:

22nd June ( Flightglobal)
Iranian carrier Zagros Airlines has tentatively signed for eight Airbus A330neo aircraft.

[simongn] 16/6/2017 18:41

"Rolls-Royce sends first Trent 7000 pair to Airbus

16 JUNE, 2017 SOURCE: FLIGHTGLOBAL PRO BY: MICHAEL GUBISCH LONDON

Rolls-Royce has shipped the Trent 7000 engines for the first Airbus A330neo to Toulouse.

The UK manufacturer says the powerplants have left its facility in Derby and will be installed on the re-engined twinjet during the summer, following integration with Safran nacelles at that company's Toulouse site."

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[arf dysg] 15/6/2017 13:13

Forwards of the fan, some panelling came loose. Naturally, this shouldn't happen.

Query the time since the previous maintenance/inspection?


video and still pictures: the fan is intact. It’s the inlet cowl (upstream of the fan) which was damaged.

hxxp://www.smh.com.au/business/aviation/midair-emergency-forces-china-eastern-flight-to-return-to-sydney-20170611-gwp359.html












A very similar-looking incident from a month ago, also with a Trent 700:

hxxps://theworldofaviationblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/egypt-air-airbus-a330-suffers-uncontained-engine-failure-on-takeoff-roll/

Unfortunately, the headline on that one says “uncontained failure” which is wrong. The phrase "uncontained" is used when some high-speed (i.e. dangerous) debris comes out from the internal parts of the engine. Engines are designed so that there is never any uncontained failure. They are tested so that even if a (massive) fan blade comes off, no parts escape and everything is contained within the engine.




It looks as if the main structure of the engine is intact, so it would have continued running. It is some panelling (forward of the engine proper) which came loose.

There would have been noise because the acoustic panelling was then missing, and temporary noise as bits of the panel were (presumably) chewed up by the fan.

[simongn] 14/6/2017 08:04

Indeed, remember Sheffield Forgemasters and the cancelled loan, short sighted short termism.

[dafrog] 13/6/2017 21:13

Our Governments seem to spurn UK industry.

[simongn] 13/6/2017 18:23

"Rolls-Royce elaborates on its SMR plans

13 June 2017

Small modular reactors (SMRs) offer the UK socio-economic benefits that would last 100 years, said John Molyneux of Rolls-Royce, but today's government must make its mind up how it wants to proceed.

Rolls-Royce's director of technology and engineering, John Molyneux gave more details on Rolls-Royce's new reactor design and the next steps in its development when speaking to the European Young Nuclear Generation Forum event in Manchester, organised by the European Nuclear Society and the UK Nuclear Institute."

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[simongn] 13/6/2017 07:18

"Investigation launched after R-R-powered flight lands with hole torn in engine casing

An investigation has been launched after a Rolls-Royce-powered aircraft bound for Shanghai was forced to make an emergency landing after a technical failure left a hole in an engine casing.

The China Eastern Airlines flight was heading from Sydney, Australia, to Shanghai, when the pilot reported problems with one of its two Trent 700 engines about an hour after taking off. The Airbus A330 turned back for Sydney and landed safely."

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May well be a similar failure mode to this . . .

"Incident: Egypt A332 at Cairo on May 15th 2017, rejected takeoff due to engine failure"

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The suggestion is that it's not an engine failure as such but more of a nacelle failure.

[simongn] 10/6/2017 09:54

"Rolls-Royce and Schneider Electric win nuclear automation deal

09 June 2017
By Kelvin Ross, Editor

Rolls-Royce and Schneider Electric have been chosen as the preferred automation suppliers for Pyhäjoki nuclear power plant, which Fennovoima plans to build in Finland."

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[simongn] 09/6/2017 08:17

Brexit all over again, uncertainty reigns and RR. benefits from it.

Not complaining, just don't fully understand it. :-)

[erdingtonian] 03/6/2017 21:34

They both appear to be planetary to me; however it depends which elements are the input, output and stationary from the sun gear, the planet carrier and the outer ring. This is possibly what is novel. (I worked on the air bleed piping of the P&W engine but I have no privileged knowledge about the core.)

I'm intrigued by the shapes of the gear teeth on the R-R CAD representation. Is this just to baffle competitors or something new I wonder.

[rogerrail] 02/6/2017 15:30

Erdingtonian

Maybe, but how does that square with the statement below? I cant see P&W would much have of case if a planetary configuration was used particularly as you cited the other examples of this application?

"However, R-R and Liebherr announce a joint venture in 2015 to develop the power gearbox partly at Biberach an der Riss, which is a Liebherr site that specialises in planetary gears. By contrast, P&W uses a star gear design in the geared turbofan engines now in service.
Even if the UltraFan uses a different type of gearbox, P&W could still launch a patent dispute".

[erdingtonian] 02/6/2017 15:08

Geared fans already existed: Garrett TFE731, Lycoming ALF502 & Rolls-Royce/SNECMA M45H; P&W's claims really then centre on a particular structural configuration, which is the case for many parts of an engine.

[rogerrail] 02/6/2017 14:25

seems they can shove their patent where the sun don't shine:

[simongn] 01/6/2017 17:03

"Rolls-Royce UltraFan could spark patent complaint: P&W

31 MAY, 2017 SOURCE: FLIGHTGLOBAL.COM BY: STEPHEN TRIMBLE WASHINGTON DC

Rolls-Royce could face a patent fight if the future UltraFan engine is chosen to power a potential new Boeing aircraft, Pratt & Whitney president Bob Leduc tells FlightGlobal on 31 May."

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[dafrog] 26/5/2017 21:39

Thanks Simon.

[simongn] 26/5/2017 17:56

dafrog26 said

"Assume RR must have taken someone over to have this factory in Berlin."

Was a JV with BMW . . .

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[standish11] 26/5/2017 17:09

DIRECTOR, GROUP FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS



Rolls-Royce today announces the appointment of Ben Fidler into the new senior leadership role of Director, Group Financial Planning & Analysis, reporting to Chief Financial Officer Stephen Daintith. Ben, presently an Aerospace and Defence Analyst with Deutsche Bank, will take up his new appointment at the beginning of September 2017 and will have responsibility for management reporting, forecasting, budgeting and long-term planning.




Stephen Daintith, Chief Financial Officer, said: "Ben will bring exactly the right sort of rigour and challenge that Rolls-Royce needs to achieve our long-term goals and secure a more profitable and cash-generative future".

Bearing in mind that at the end of March 2017 Deutsche Bank had a SELL recommendation and a price target of 540p on RR this is certainly an interesting appointment.

[dafrog] 26/5/2017 07:40

Interesting. 7 years though to fit a gearbox! Assume RR must have taken someone over to have this factory in Berlin.

[simongn] 25/5/2017 20:32

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