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608 engines for 76 airplanes?
That’s like…………more than 2 engines per plane.
Yay. B52s keep flying. We’ll be seeing the great grandchildren if the original pilots flying them eventually.
Ping!
Rolls-Royce makes a good engine, but it is disappointing that GE and P&W lost out.
That bomber will be flying for the next 500 years. And then, the Chinese or Taliban will inherit them. ;)
When was the last brand new B52 built? Why would they stop building them?
I guess the Buyden Administration figures it is better to smooth a few ruffled feathers over Afghanistan than to Buy American.
Really? They rejected TWO American firms and gave the contract to the Brits?? What the heck?
Rolls-Royce has been accused numerous times of corrupt practices and bribery. Most recently, in 2014, facing allegations of bribery in the aftermath of the Sudhir Choudhrie affair, Rolls-Royce offered to return money to the Indian government.[61] The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) also investigated allegations of bribery in Indonesia and China.[62]
In February 2015 Rolls-Royce was accused of bribing an employee of Brazil’s state-controlled oil company to win a $100 million contract to provide gas turbines for oil platforms.[63]
In October 2016 a joint Guardian and BBC investigation alleged widespread corruption by Rolls-Royce through middlemen in foreign countries including Brazil, India, China, Indonesia, South Africa, Angola, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Rolls-Royce became subject to a major SFO investigation.[64]
(maybe I should read the article?)
When I worked in a shipyard Rolls Royce tech reps came in frequently to help us work on the Rolls Royce systems on the vessels. I would always ask them if they could get me a discount on one of their cars. In 20 years not one person, except me, thought that was funny, but I still did until the day I retired.
I say one engine for one plane.
My car only needs one engine.
For crying out loud, give em a V-8 if they need more power.
And Rolls Royce engines?
What’s the matter with a good old Chevy engine.
They probably want grey poupon mustard on their sammiches, too.
What in hell happened to the “Buy American” law???
Within 10 years theses will be used to bomb few the remaining red states
A military pilot called for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running “a bit peaked.”
Air Traffic Control told the fighter pilot that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down.
“Ah,” the fighter pilot remarked, “The dreaded seven-engine approach.”
Yes, they won - But politically speaking, Rolls would be ill-served “because they are a foreigners” ... Wait for this too to be cancelled later due to pressure from New York-Mass-CT legislation for “their” home-town (too expensive but labor_favored) local companies!
But it is about time! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long to get these engines updated.
UK & RR “building back better”
Just wrong.
Don’t care about GE but P&W needed the contract.
Nothing wrong with Rolls just not our people.