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To: EveningStar

Boeing doesn’t build/manufacture engines. They buy them (to their spec’s) from Rolls Royce or GE or some other company.


3 posted on 12/14/2018 1:37:16 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer
Boeing doesn’t build/manufacture engines. They buy them (to their spec’s) from Rolls Royce or GE or some other company.

Bingo. Required reading:


6 posted on 12/14/2018 2:06:01 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: SkyDancer

Consider the financial state of either of those two suppliers. GE is a mess, and Rolls has been a mess.


9 posted on 12/14/2018 2:57:18 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: SkyDancer
They buy them (to their spec’s) from Rolls Royce or GE or some other company.

GE - close, but no.

Rolls Royce - way off target.

some other company - third try, you got it right. CFM International - a joint venture of Safran (as in France) formerly known as Snecma, and GE Aviation.

11 posted on 12/14/2018 3:10:00 PM PST by PAR35
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