So I answer.
Before I get accused of giving too little info, now too much. Do you want me to answer the questions or not?
I never said that that these engines were around in 1979.
I don't claim to be anything that I am not. I google stuff and yes I have been around people who trouble-shoot on engines. But no-one told me about the Trent engines it was in the main news and since a lot of people on this forum fly, I thought they may like to know. Now it seems that a lot of you are not just passengers, actually in the aeronautical trade, Boeing, air stewards, pilots and you get angry with me for posting it. Why?
Either you believe what I am saying and don't like it. So you try discredit me. Well that hasn't worked either. Do you want me to answer accusations or not?
But no-one has effectively established that the Trent engine in question does not have a problem. To me it seems to be a sizeable problem
Lastly Shorrick you keep bringing up the JCB thing. Tough Luck if you got landed with JCB shares, I don't buy shares so I am not interested in you offloading them
SIA stays cool over BA Boeing crash warning - 10 hours ago
There are currently 220 Boeing 777s with Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines in operation with 11 airlines around the world.
These carriers are following the investigations with a degree of nervousness as any call to modify the fleet could affect their operations.
I am flying over a polar region, which causes problems for these engines, All I have to do is avoid 777's on the 22 airlines that carry them.
To me it makes as much sense as taking the times to choose a safe car or one that is reported to have problems.
It isn't that I have anything against RR my uncle was awarded an OBE while working on their engines.
When you fly you have to be comfortable and if you feel uneasy flying with the Trents, then by all means avoid them. I fly fairly regularly and for me it is not an issue. I guess that means that you and I won't be fighting over the last seat on a plane.
Safe travels whatever you fly with.
constant, world-wide, Northern and Southern Hemispheres, above every
continent and every water mass. Polar region or not!
You will have to find another form of transportation
It isn't what the so-called aviation experts say, they say it changes according to altitude. That would be interesting to know though if anyone has any evidence to the contrary.
After a while, my Uncle became accustomed to carrying a bullwhip with him on all flights, in order to encourage the engines to pedal faster. The problems with heat diminished significantly with this simple measure, although the engines did occasionally have a tendency to fall out of their saddles, resulting in their permanent loss in the ocean or forest. They were easily replaced upon reaching the zeppelin's destination, however, by the simple practice of offering them copious quantities of what my Uncle euphemistically described as 'aviation fuel'.
My Uncle was eventually forced to bail out of the Hindenbourg owing to an erupting pancreas, which had taken three years to explode, and had previously been diagnosed as an extratesticular pregnancy. Fortunately, he was found in the jungle, airlifted to Teheran, where he took part in the storming of the American embassy, before moving to Hanley where he invented the wheel.
There's a whole article on wikipedia about it, if you're interested...
No Hindenbergs but my mum did fly up the Nile to the UK on a flying boat.
Just don't fly 777s for the six months it will take Rolls to redesign the engines so they don't freeze and quit, and you'll be fine.
http://www.businessinsider.com/henry...edesign-2009-3
Boeing 777 safety measures 'insufficient' to prevent risk of disaster
Interim safety measures put in place on 220 airliners with an engine flaw are “insufficient” to prevent the risk of a fatal crash, according to the US air safety body.
I (hoppy) wrote: I am flying over a polar region, which causes problems for these engines, All I have to do is avoid 777's on the 22 airlines that carry them.
Scott posted this following my post (although I can't find where he posted it earlier)
Guess what I said before didn't register. At altitude the temperatures are constant, world-wide, Northern and Southern Hemispheres, above every continent and every water mass. Polar region or not! You will have to find another form of transportation.
Now if you look at the articles:
It explains what RR suggest pilots do:
The "mandatory flying procedures" involve flying lower (that means altitude) and, in what seems to be reminiscent of driving cars in the severe weather of the 1960s, to - in effect - "blip the throttle" every so often to blow through any small crystals that might form.There is also some concern that the NTSB may be playing politics, and criticising Rolls-Royce where it may have used more temperate language had the engines been produced by a US manufacturer.
Certainly, Rolls-Royce takes comfort from the AAIB report which makes it plain that the engine design meets or exceeds all requirements and points out that so-called "long-cold-high" ( that means altitude +latitude ) routes is an industry wide problem.
Basically they can't fly too high too long in colder regions.
Gee, I thought my days of teaching Earth Science to high schoolers were over, guess it may come in handy if I meet a stewardess who does'nt get it.