{"id":110151,"date":"2021-05-14T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=110151"},"modified":"2021-05-14T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T12:15:40","slug":"rolls-royce-talks-boeing-797-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2021\/05\/rolls-royce-talks-boeing-797-program.html","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Royce in talks with Boeing over 797 program."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Rolls Royce<\/strong> reversal course and resumes talks with Boeing on new <strong>797 program<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years ago, Rolls Royce, stunned the aviation world by pulling out of the race to power Boeing\u2019s 797 after it announced a \u00a32.9 billion loss over costs to rectify durability faults on its Trent 1000 engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>See also: <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/en\/2021\/05\/malaysia-airlines-retire-airbus-a380.html\"><em>Malaysia Airlines plans to retire its Airbus A380 fleet.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 797 is expected to be a twin-aisle 220-270 seat aircraft in a 2-3-2 configuration in economy that would have a range of about 10 hours and sits between the smaller single-aisle 737\/A320 aircraft and the larger 787\/A350 designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The promised fuel economy of both the new generation engine and the airframe optimized only for 10-hour missions, has the airline industry excited with Qantas\u2019s chief executive Alan Joyce saying prior to COVID that Boeing would be \u201ccrazy not to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>See also: <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/en\/2021\/04\/airbus-lufthansa-convert-commercial-aircraft-freighters.html\"><em>Airbus and Lufthansa Technik join forces to convert commercial aircraft into freighters on temporary basis.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe think it\u2019s a fantastic aircraft on paper that looks good for what we want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The market size for the 797 is put at between 5000 and 7000 aircraft over 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UltraFan, which Rolls-Royce has begun building and will be the world&#8217;s largest aero engine, will be significantly larger than Boeing needs, but it will spawn a family with a variety of thrust levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The twin-aisle medium-range aircraft seating about 250 passengers is not new and both Boeing and its legacy company McDonnell Douglas touted the concept in the 1980s and 90s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-post-grid uagb-post-grid  uagb-post__image-position-top uagb-post__image-enabled uagb-block-adbb8580     uagb-post__items uagb-post__columns-2 is-grid uagb-post__columns-tablet-2 uagb-post__columns-mobile-1 uagb-post__equal-height\" data-total=\"199\" style=\"\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<article class=\"uagb-post__inner-wrap\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='uagb-post__image'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a 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