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Rolls-Royce Engine Key to Zero-Carbon Shift Ready for Trials
A full-scale model of the new Rolls-Royce UltraFan.
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Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc said a new aircraft engine designed to slash carbon production over coming decades is ready to be fired up in ground-based tests.
The demonstrator turbine for the so-called UltraFan program has completed assembly and been transported to Rolls’s purpose-built Testbed 80 in Derby, England, where it has been mounted in preparation for activation early next year, the London-based company said in a statement Monday.