Rolls-Royce engines that shaped long-haul flying
A look at Rolls-Royce engine designs credited with changing intercontinental air travel, built around the shift away from early pure turbojets.
In the late 1950s, long-haul flying was noisy, expensive, and fuel-hungry. Early transatlantic jetliners used pure turbojets, sending all intake air through a white-hot combustion core. Kerosene consumption was heavy, and aircraft crossed the ocean at maximum power.
According to the account, the problem was straightforward: if global flight was to become economically accessible, engines had to deliver much more thrust while burning considerably less fuel per mile.
Rolls-Royce's engine family is presented as the answer, with several designs credited with reshaping how far and how affordably aircraft could fly.
Sources
- simpleflying.comRolls-Royce's Most Notable Engines That Changed Long-Haul Flying Forever