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Saving fuel with the wide-chord fan

Part of: Sustainable Aerospace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

John Cundy
John Cundy*
Affiliation:
Rolls-Royce, Derby
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More than ten years of development have gone into the Rolls-Royce wide-chord fan, which will provide a 2½ per cent fuel saving when it enters service in 1984. This new and highly efficient fan is one of the advanced features of the 535E4 engine, which will have a fuel consumption 10 per cent better than that of the initial Rolls-Royce engine for the Boeing 757, the 535C.

How has this advanced fan been developed and what are its advantages? This article surveys the reasons for its development and the factors involved in this technical advance pioneered by Rolls-Royce.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 87 , Issue 867 , September 1983 , pp. 272 - 276
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1983 

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References

This paper was first printed in the Rolls-Royce Magazine, No 17, June 1983.

Paper No 1112.