Talk:Rolls-Royce Trent 900

Airbus A380 Failure
A Trent 900 suffered a failure today on an Airbus A380. Judging from the photo in the news stories such as this one, my guess is that the engine threw an HPT or LPT blade, but we'll wait and see what the official word is. This incident may warrent a mention in the article if RR takes any action, like grounding the engine or redesigning a part, but I think we can wait and see before posting anything. -SidewinderX (talk) 11:52, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, I read that this morning as well, grounding the Qantas fleet is a fairly notable action. As you say we don't know what caused it yet so we should hang on (it may take a while to determine the cause).Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by)    12:09, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Yup, I agree. Btw, seems like they got lucky that it threw whatever failed outboard of the cabin... -SidewinderX (talk) 12:57, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I saw the AfD on the incident, only you noted that the problem was with the engine, not the aircraft. The incident has been noted in the A380 article and when we better know what the cause was we can move some of the info over here (assuming that it wasn't a birdstrike, FOD or something similar). It looks like the failure was contained (as it is designed and tested to do) even if it did loose some cowling panels. Speculating on the cause would be just that at the moment. Cheers Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by)    13:04, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * The damage was not contained. A portion of the disk was found in Indonesia.  You can see the turbine outer casing is gone on the widely distributed pictures in the media.  There are also pictures of a puncture to the wing.173.8.206.125 (talk) 18:49, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

What specifically caused the bearing box to fail? Putting it differently, what is different about the new upgraded bearing boxes from the old faulty ones? Is it a sealing problem? Was the seal redesigned to prevent leakage? --Westwind273 (talk) 23:18, 14 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Does anyone know if all the speculation on Qantas cost cutting on maintenance has anything to do with the failure?

60.240.14.140 (talk) 12:15, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

needs updated
Rolls Royce no longer has the market share on A380. PW/GE has 144 Order verse 84 for RR. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.64.176.178 (talk) 08:56, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Engine issues after Qantas engine fire
It seems that the article info on the engine fire has grown quite a lot here. Although I welcome in depth coverage, we have an article specifically on the problem (with the confusing name Qantas Flight 32, as it is as much about the aftermath as on the flight itslelf, but that is the naming convention the aircrash people don't wish to change) also detailing the events afterwards. Shall I trim the section here down to a single paragraph? L.tak (talk) 21:41, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

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