Goodwood, England, 1-10-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Rolls-Royce today congratulated Airbus on achieving European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Type Certification for the A350-900, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines.
The Trent XWB is the world’s most efficient large civil aero engine and the fastest-selling Trent engine ever, with more than 1,400 engines already sold. It will power the first A350 XWB into service with Qatar Airways later this year.
Rolls-Royce engineers worked closely with Airbus to support aircraft certification, producing over 180 reports to validate interfaces between the engine and airframe.
Eric Schulz, Rolls-Royce, President – Civil Large Engines, said: “We congratulate Airbus on this achievement, another chapter in the A350 XWB’s continuing success story. We look forward to continuing to support Airbus as we work towards the aircraft’s entry into service later this year.”
The Trent XWB has now completed more than 11,000 hours of ground and flight testing.
Ground testing has taken place at: Rolls-Royce in Derby in the United Kingdom; Spain’s space agency, the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) in Madrid; the Global Aerospace Centre for Icing and Environmental Research (GLACIER) in Manitoba, Canada; the Rolls-Royce outdoor jet engine testing facility at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi; and the Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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