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Air Force

Rolls-Royce Says Upgrade Will Increase Fuel Efficiency, Life Of T56 Engine

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

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A Rolls-Royce executive said yesterday the company has achieved significant improvement in its T56 engine series 3.5 upgrade program. Tom Hartmann, Rolls-Royce senior vice president of government programs, told reporters yesterday during a briefing that the T56 3.5 engine kit was “fully vetted and tested” in the company’s Indianapolis, Ind., -based facility about 18 months ago. Hartmann added the company proved on an instrumented test cell that it got the fuel efficiency, lowering of temperature and power increase it believed…

Congress

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Congress

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