Engines
Rolls-Royce Continues To Improve Whole Trent Engine Family
Rolls-Royce is continuing to revamp the Trent 900 with a second enhanced-performance upgrade (EP2) that is expected to improve fuel consumption by another 0.8 percent. It is now running and destined to be the standard for production units as of early next year.
Rolls-Royce is continuing to revamp the Trent 900 with a second enhanced-performance upgrade (EP2) that is expected to improve fuel consumption by another 0.8 percent. It is now running and destined to be the standard for production units as of early next year.

Rolls-Royce’s strategy of feeding technological developments from new programs back to established engines for upgrades or retrofit changes is creating a range of enhanced-performance (EP) packages being available to customers. Since the original Trent 700 entered service on a Cathay Pacific Airbus A330 in 1985 (the carrier received the 1,000th A330 four months ago), subsequent models have led to a tailored family involving common architecture among variants dedicated to specific airframes.