Cookie Consent by Free Privacy Policy website Lufthansa Airbus A350-900: Successful Cargo Test Loading of a Trent XWB Engine
ottobre 03, 2016 - Lufthansa

Lufthansa Airbus A350-900: Successful Cargo Test Loading of a Trent XWB Engine

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. 

• Joint action of #lufthansa Technik, #lufthansa Cargo und Rolls-Royce

Lufthansa Technik AG, together with #lufthansa Cargo, has reached another important milestone in its preparations for the entry into service of the #airbus #a350 at #lufthansa. In a test carried out under real-life conditions at Frankfurt airport, a Trent XWB aircraft engine provided by Rolls-Royce was loaded into a #boeing 777F freighter. The successful loading trial means that the seamless logistics of providing spare engines via air freight are now assured for the bulky Trent XWBs of the #a350.

“Over the last four months, we developed a detailed loading and rigging plan based on our experience with other capital goods that are similarly sensitive and yet difficult to handle,” says Harald Mueller, who is responsible at #lufthansa Cargo for Aircraft Handling Competence & Quality Assurance. “It’s great to see that it works in practice exactly the way we envisioned it.”

“We’re very proud that we can now approve this important step on the way to the entry into service of the #a350,” said Dean Raineri, Project Director New Aircraft and Infrastructure Development Aircraft Maintenance at #lufthansa Technik.

When prepared for loading, the engine and its transport stand weigh 18 tons. The engine weighs seven tons (dry weight) and is five meters long; the fan is three meters in diameter. As a result, the engine could until now only be transported with ultra-large freighter aircraft like the Antonov An-124, an #airbus Beluga or a #boeing C-17. As an alternative, Rolls-Royce developed a completely new type of transport stand, which makes possible the loading into a classic freighter aircraft. The engines are divided into two large modules in order to place them on the stand.

On this split engine stand, the large-volume fan can be separated from the rest of the engine within a single day. The individual modules are then optimally prepared for transport together with the other tools required for engine replacement, and can be loaded. The unit that results from this approach can be transported in #boeing #747 and #777 freighter aircraft.

News correlate

marzo 07, 2024
marzo 05, 2024
febbraio 21, 2024

Airbus ha presentato al pubblico il suo prototipo completamente elettrico del CityAirbus NextGen in vista del volo inaugurale prev...

American Airlines ha firmato un ordine fermo per 85 ulteriori A321neo, portando l'ordine totale per questo tipo di aeromobile a 21...

 La compagnia aerea STARLUX Airlines di Taiwan ha siglato un ordine fermo per cinque nuovissimi cargo A350F e altri tre aeromobili...

Ti potrebbe interessare anche

gennaio 22, 2024
dicembre 07, 2023
agosto 02, 2023

La flotta del Gruppo Air Astana è cresciuta fino a raggiungere i 50 aeromobili in seguito alla consegna di un nuovo Airbus A321neo...

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. +++ Submissions from students, researchers and professional experts in Qua...

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. +++ BMW Group, Airbus and Quantinuum joined forces and achieved breakthrou...