All this is particularly painful for the Americans, because the jet-engine market is changing.
In doing so, the British jet-engine maker improved its employer brand score significantly.
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If it succeeds, the material could be used for jet-engine parts, allowing them to run at higher, more efficient temperatures.
The resulting military innovation will also transform civilian vehicles, much as military research created the Internet, GPS and the jet-engine and microchip industries.
Despite signs of a weakening U.S. economy, aerospace component manufacturers are working flat out, machining turbine compressor blades, high-speed bearings and other parts for jet-engine and aircraftmakers.
They also argue that competition could improve the operational performance and reliability of both engines, insulate the military from engine-related problems leading to fleet groundings, and bolster the jet-engine industrial base.
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The engine allows a spaceplane to take off from a runway like any normal jet, and go as fast as Mac 5.5 on a jet-like engine.
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The company identified 17 products that met its standard of providing "significant and measurable environmental performance advantages, " including a Lexan film that replaces conventional paint, Harmony water-conserving washing machines, the new fuel-efficient GEnx jet engine and GE's Evolution locomotive, a 208-ton, 4, 400hp workhorse that burns 3% less fuel and puts out 40% less pollution than its immediate predecessor.
The single-engine jet is a departure from the old idea that redundancy equals safety.
But what about things like the foreign service pay, an alternate F-35 jet engine?
You may not know this, but the market has already accepted single-engine jet aircraft.
The wide-body, twin-engine jet relies on a complex network of electrical systems rather than traditional pneumatic systems.
All three single turboprops have superb safety records, a sure sign that single-engine jet aircraft can be successful.
Cirrus is considering a single-engine jet aircraft to compete with single turboprops from New Piper and EADS Socata.
Modern manufacturing processes combined with electronic fuel control and engine diagnostics make a single-engine jet much safer than earlier models.
The four-engine jet left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday, but was grounded at the Evreux-Fauville airbase until Tuesday to allow the "minor technical fault" to be fixed.
One way to increase the efficiency of a high-bypass jet engine is to turn the fan into an open rotor, a bit like returning to propellers, but using two rings of stubby counter-rotating blades.
Both BA and KLM, after all, had direct experience of what flying through volcanic ash can do to a high-bypass turbofan jet engine.
Cirrus said that CAIGA will bring the resources to expedite development of the single-engine Vision jet, which could now achieve FAA certification and initial deliveries in mid-2014.
The Rolls-Royce Crosspointe jet engine disc manufacturing facility the President will visit is an example of how insourcing means companies from around the world are creating new, good paying jobs here at home.
Personally, I have my eye on an even smaller jet, the rumored single-engine, four-seat pocket-rocket from Cirrus Design. (If the one engine fails, pull a lever and a parachute will float you and the plane to a soft landing.) One of the two brothers who founded Cirrus told me the Cirrus jet would go 300 knots, or 345 miles per hour.
It will be powered by a combination of a hybrid rocket and a jet engine from a Eurofighter-Typhoon.
So GE brags about the terabyte of data that flows out of a single jet engine on a single cross-country flight.
The four-engine C-17 jet can land on a runway only 3, 000 feet long and 90 feet wide, according to a document from the Department of Defense.
Small-jet innovation and sales are booming, but the poor relations, those single-engine Archers, Skyhawks and Bonanzas, sell at a shadow of their 1970s peak.
But New Delhi insists the jet developed engine trouble and did not leave Indian-administered Kashmir, where a military campaign against Muslim militants is underway.
The big aircraft-engine makers are exploring new ideas for jet engines.
Nazi aerospace engineers pioneered the jet engine and their early work on rockets laid the foundations for the post-war space programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Rolls-Royce already gleans 51% of its revenue from servicing its engine fleet: its Trent jet engines are continuously assessed from a slick operations room at Derby.
However high-bypass engines are built in the future, at their core they will still have a basic jet engine.
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