Rolls-Royce weighs tweaking engine to give a lift to Airbus A380
Rolls-Royce Holdings is seeking ways to upgrade its engines for Airbus' A380 as the planemaker attempts to win orders for the slow-selling superjumbo jet. “We are contemplating what we can do over and above with Airbus,” Eric Schulz, Rolls-Royce’s head of civil aviation, said. “As soon as we mature a new technology we have a tendency to go back and roll it back to the product. We have done quite a lot of this already on the Trent 900.” Previous engine improvements have lifted fuel performance by as much as 1.5% with each package, Schulz said Monday. He declined to predict further savings that a new upgrade might provide. In 2015, the engine maker scooped up an order on 50 jets from the superjumbo’s biggest customer, Emirates. <br/>
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Rolls-Royce weighs tweaking engine to give a lift to Airbus A380
Rolls-Royce Holdings is seeking ways to upgrade its engines for Airbus' A380 as the planemaker attempts to win orders for the slow-selling superjumbo jet. “We are contemplating what we can do over and above with Airbus,” Eric Schulz, Rolls-Royce’s head of civil aviation, said. “As soon as we mature a new technology we have a tendency to go back and roll it back to the product. We have done quite a lot of this already on the Trent 900.” Previous engine improvements have lifted fuel performance by as much as 1.5% with each package, Schulz said Monday. He declined to predict further savings that a new upgrade might provide. In 2015, the engine maker scooped up an order on 50 jets from the superjumbo’s biggest customer, Emirates. <br/>
