"Overhead is the Airbus A340, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 500 engines, each with a thrust of 224,000lb, giving the aircraft almost 1,000,000lb of thrust to push it through the sky."
And time to orbit is? (Thanks to nephew Andrew Simpson)
Source: Flight International
Porter Aircraft Leasing, a subsidiary of Canada’s Porter Aviation Holdings, has agreed to the sale-leaseback of four Pratt & Whitney engines with international lessor Avolon.
Boeing’s commercial aircraft order and delivery figures tumbled last year as the US company worked through a manufacturing crisis.
Wichita aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems has sold Fiber Materials, a manufacturer of high-temperature materials for defence applications, to aerospace firm Tex Tech Industries for $165 million.
