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The American Federal Aviation Administration certified the engine for commercial operation on January 4, 2006. [4] The engine was ground run for the first time on an A380 on August 14, 2006, in Toulouse. [5] On August 25, 2006, the same aircraft, A380-861 test aircraft (MSN 009), made the first flight of an Engine Alliance powered A380.
The Rolls-Royce Trent 900 is a high-bypass turbofan produced by Rolls-Royce plc to power the Airbus A380, competing with the Engine Alliance GP7000.Initially proposed for the Boeing 747-500/600X in July 1996, [2] this first application was later abandoned but it was offered for the A3XX, [3] launched as the A380 in December 2000. [4]
The main application for such an engine, the GP7100, was originally for the Boeing 747-500/600X projects, before these were cancelled due to lack of demand from airlines. Instead, the GP7000 has been re-optimized for use on the Airbus A380 superjumbo. In that market it competed with the Rolls-Royce Trent 900, the launch engine for the aircraft ...
Airbus ended production of the A380 in 2021 — 18 years after it began. The four-engined plane received 251 orders from 14 customers, with many airlines wary of its high operating costs.
The Airbus A380 is a very large wide-body airliner, developed and produced by Airbus. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and the only full-length double-deck jet airliner. Airbus studies started in 1988, and the project was announced in 1990 to challenge the dominance of the Boeing 747 in the long-haul market. The then-designated A3XX ...
A 4-foot-long tool was left inside the engine of an Airbus A380, a safety report found. The Qantas jet flew 294 hours of flights with the tool still inside, Australian authorities said.
GE Aviation, part of the General Electric conglomerate, currently has the largest share of the turbofan engine market. Some of their engine models include the CF6 (available on the Boeing 767, Boeing 747, Airbus A330 and more), GE90 (only the Boeing 777) and GEnx (developed for the Boeing 747-8 & Boeing 787 Dreamliner and proposed for the Airbus A350) engines.
French investigators have called for a review of the design and maintenance of titanium alloy engine parts to ensure they guard against the risks of metal fatigue following an engine blowout on an ...