Jet engines /
Rolls Royce makes the most complicated and powerful jet engines in the world. Visiting their biggest factory, which employs over 11,000 people, this programme shows how they do it. These are people who quite literally have our lives in their hands; it's their designs that keep jumbo jets in the...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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London :
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),
2010.
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| Series: | Engineering case studies online
Voyages of construction |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Rolls Royce makes the most complicated and powerful jet engines in the world. Visiting their biggest factory, which employs over 11,000 people, this programme shows how they do it. These are people who quite literally have our lives in their hands; it's their designs that keep jumbo jets in the sky, their skills that have made flying the safest mode of transport and their innovations that will allow aeroplanes to be bigger cleaner, greener and quieter in the future. For six months cameras followed engine assembly following the maiden flight of their new 'Trent 1000' engine fixed to a Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane - a flight which could secure deals worth millions of dollars. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 24, 2013). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (52 min.). |
| Playing Time: | 00:52:09 |