Rolls-Royce Jet Engine Manufacturing Plant: American Jobs and Industry Speech (2012)

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http://thefilmarchive.org/ March 9, 2012 On 6 April 2004, Boeing announced that it had selected both Rolls-Royce and General Electric to power its new 787. Rolls-Royce submitted the Trent 1000, a further development of that series. GE's offering is the GENX, a development of the GE90. On 13 June 2004, Rolls-Royce were awarded a £110m deal with the Ministry of Defence to supply engines for its C-130 Hercules transport aircraft for the next 5 years. In July 2006, Rolls-Royce reached an agreement to supply a new version of the Trent for the revised Airbus A350 (XWB) jetliner. Although details have yet to be released, it is likely that the so-called Trent XWB will be significantly larger than the Trent 1700, basically a throttle-push of the Trent 1000 intended for the original A350 proposal. In October 2006, Rolls-Royce suspended production of its Trent 900 engine because of delays by Airbus on the delivery of the A380 superjumbo. Rolls-Royce announced in October 2007 that production of the Trent 900 had been re-started after a twelve month suspension caused by delays to the A380. The plant in Derby, UK employs 11,000 workers and will continue to produce engines for Bombardier and Boeing, including those for the new 787 series and other Airbus aircraft such as the A330 and A340. On the military side, Rolls-Royce, in co-operation with other European manufacturers, has been a major contractor for the RB199 which in several variants powers the Panavia Tornado, and also for the EJ200 engine for the Eurofighter Typhoon. Two modified RB199 engines also powered the EAP demonstrator which evolved into the Typhoon. Rolls-Royce has matured the Rolls-Royce LiftSystem invented by Lockheed Martin for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 Lightning II to production level, planned to be produced in significant numbers. At the 2005 Paris Air Show, Rolls-Royce secured in excess of $1 billion worth of orders. The firm received $800m worth of orders from Air China to supply its 20 Airbus A330 jets. On 18 June 2007, Rolls-Royce announced at the 2007 Paris Air Show that it had signed its biggest ever contract with Qatar Airways for the Trent XWB to power 80 A350 XWBs on order from Airbus worth $5.6 billion at list prices. On 11 November 2007, another large contract was announced at the Dubai Airshow from Emirates Airline for Trent XWBs to power 50 A350-900 and 20 A350-1000 aircraft with 50 option rights. Due to be delivered from 2014, the order is potentially worth up to 8.4 billion US Dollars at list prices, including options. On 20 November 2007, Rolls-Royce announced plans to build its first Asian aero engine facility in the Seletar Aerospace Park, Singapore. The $562m (£355m) plant complements its existing facility at Derby by concentrating on the assembly and testing of large civil engines, including Trent 1000 and Trent XWB. Productivity will be higher than at Derby, as the plant is fully integrated, as opposed to manufacturing occuring across five sites in the UK: a Trent 900 will take only 14 days to manufacture, as opposed to 20 in the UK. Originally expected to provide employment for 330 people, by the start of prodution in 2012, 1,600 employees were based in Singapore. During the 2011 Avalon Airshow, Rolls-Royce faced questions concerning incidents with its Trent 900 Turbofan used to power Airbus A380 aircraft, the latest of which caused a partial power loss during a Qantas flight on 24 February 2011. RR stated that they have dedicated 350 engineers to trace the cause of a mid-air explosion in one of its Trent 900 engines on Qantas flight QF32 which caused the aircraft to make an emergency landing in Singapore in November 2010. On 9 March 2011, Rolls-Royce and Daimler AG announced their intention to make a $4.2 billion public tender offer for 100 per cent of the share capital of Tognum AG, to be carried out by a 50:50 joint venture company. If the bid is successful the joint venture company, which will also incorporate Rolls-Royce's existing Bergen engine business, is planned to be listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Tognum is the owner of MTU Friedrichshafen, a leading high-speed industrial and marine diesel engine manufacturer. Rolls-Royce presently only manufactures medium-speed gas and diesel engines through its Bergen subsidiary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_plc

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I love Obama. He stand there extolling the virtues of American inventions and technologies and investment for American jobs in a British built factory that builds British designed Rolls Royce jet engines that were themselves a British invention! He mentions most American companies (Boeing, Ford, GM etc etc) and only mentions his hosts ONCE!!

And glorifies the US auto industry that became known as 'Government Motors', Chrysler is now Italian and Ford has basically retreated from Europe. And proudly says "In a decade from now US cars will return 55 MPG!" Well no shit Sherlock? I have a 10 year old European built car that still does 48 MPG and new ones here do 70+ MPG with lower emissions than the US could ever imagine.

Still it makes good politics ...

@ barracuda7018. And now you deny we invented radar? We were using early warning radar before WWII and it was a decisive factor in our victory in the Battle of Britain. (An event few of you Yanks even know about as it was 2 years before Pearl Harbour). We deployed triangulated radar / radio beams to position large bombers over their targets (something your guys laughed at but eventually also used).
And you may need to go check what the 'Tizzard Papers' were. Tizard led what became known as the Tizard Mission to the United States, which introduced them to the newly-invented resonant-cavity magnetron (advanced radar) and other British radar developments, the Whittle gas turbine, the British Tube Alloys (nuclear weapons) project and plastic explosives. There was a lot more .. We GAVE you guys the technologies we had researched and developed but were unable to build in the middle of a war zone. (Yes something else you Yanks forget: 67,000 British civilians died in the front line called the Home Front).
In short my ignorant Yank friend WE invented and developed radar and then deployed it on ships and aircraft to defeat U Boats and German aircraft. If you need more proof Google 'Magnetron'. Or look in your microwave oven...

@ Barracuda7018. You Yanks make me laugh. You twist history to somehow make out you invent things you never did. And then go on to deny a historical fact if we Brits did it. You NEVER invented the jet engine. That was Frank Whittle who was the first to register a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930 AND ACTUALLY MAKE IT WORK!. We put the first OPERATIONAL jet fighter into action in July 1944. A month after D Day. Don't be misled the Me262 was first. It was never reliable enough to make Squadron numbers but was credited with operations in later '44. Of course you Yanks never built a jet engine until the 50s because your first jets had GE built Whittle or UK built Rolls Royce engines.
Why do you guys do all that bullshit 'we did it all' crap? You just look fucking idiots!

GE makes the best aircraft engines followed by Pratt & Whitney!

Just look at all the black people congregating around Obama!

ohain did read whittles patent

Britain designs, the world makes...

Britain has pretty much invented everything. More importantly everything useful, and still today we invent and lead world technologys. It's a nice feeling Americans and the rest of the world come to us for engineering... with the Americans taking the credit of course.

Fantastisk oversettelse til Norsk !!!

@1chish, Rolls-Royce has been active in the U.S. for many years, dating back to heritage company Allison.

Nice to see an American President saying how great the plant was that he was in and how Boeing needed it etc . But not one word about the fact that Rolls Royce is a British company. This is the same President that called BP 'British Petroleum' when it suited him politically for the Gulf oil disaster and cover the tracks of the two American companies who were really responsible and who sought cover under obscure American legislation and it was BP who paid there dues through American lawyers

Just to be clear. I didn't say the internet was a British invention, I was merely directing you toward the fundamental relationship with the internet and Donald Davies and his Packet Switch Network. It's said that the internet was modeled (to an extent) on that network. Of course, it's all second hand information, so I wouldn't insist on it. You have explained it to me quite well.

So I don't understand how you can conclude that the internet was a British invention when many of the necessary developments to make an internet, were developed in the USA. Not to mention that 2 forerunners to the commercial internet area also American (ARPANET, NSFNET), and the initial concept of a packet switched network came from the USA. We could argue that the World Wide Web wouldn't exist without the TCP/IP protocols that it runs on, but that doesn't make it an American invention.

Overall, we have concept of packet switching: first developed by Paul Baran in the USA... Donald Davies (while "discovering" packet switching for himself) shared knowledge with the American computer scientists BEFORE building either MARK I or MARK II packet switching networks, gathering ideas like queueing of packets (developed by American Leonard Kleinrock) into his packet switching network. Towards present, the TCP/IP protocols the current internet works on were also developed in the USA

Because the Mark 2 was the refined current network that arpernet was modeled on. en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Donald_Davies

Also, I refer you to the pioneer of packet switching: Paul Baran, an engineer of Polish-American background!!!

If that was the first packet switch network, why then is it the MARK II ... and not the MARK 1?

I can't listen to anymore, I'm going to puke. Shameful.

Obama talks so much overblown exaggerated BS. Typically American.

The internet was modeled on the worlds first Packet Switch Network in the UK, called the "MARK II Packet Switch Network" So not so much of the "definitely!!"