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Rolls-Royce UltraFan Design Frozen

Rolls-Royce’s UltraFan demonstrator project reaches a major milestone.

The UltraFan demonstrator’s power gear box test article currently reaches 70,000 shp, but R-R’s goal is for it to reach 100,000 shp.

By Chris Kjelgaard

July 16, 2018

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