I have not seen such a wonderful team of workers who take so much pride in their work in many other organizations. That's the ideal characteristics of a technology firm in the 21st century. You are the leaders!
27:54 I like Steve's enthusiasm for perfection, and his joyfulness. This, more than anything, shows how human emotion, not the absence of it, is at the core of anything that is made with such amazing precision and strength. In fact, what's more fascinating to me than the engine is the genuine integrity of all of the people in this documentary, and how much pleasure this kind of work brings them. I doubt there's a better way to live. Maybe different, but not better.
Thanks to series producer Steve Crabtree and Director Paul King for this outstanding program on Rolls Royce-- so intriguing, I cannot wait to watch it at least once more-- even as long as it is. There is no wasted narrative or extra footage in covering the mammoth complexity of the Rolls Royce operation and its suppliers. Particularly fascinating was not only the precise engineering of energy in each engine, but even the post-sale digital field monitoring of some 8,000-10,000 completed engines in regular service. What a tragedy it would have been for the company's finest moment, the birth of the Trent series engines, to have been eclipsed by a bankruptcy. All, going to show major advances in technology are never neatly predictable and spreadsheet-perfect affairs. * As a historical observation, the stunning and remarkable coincidence for BMW, manufacturer of WW2 fighter aircraft engines for the FW190, to begin production of the Rolls Royce luxury sedan, once the signature product of the same company which made Merlin engines for the Spitfire (Lancaster, etc).
Everyone of these people are definitely masters of there craft. Beyond impressed by Rolls Royce. Makes me feel even safer when going up six miles high.
just strap it to the top of the car.... hit that highway and blow past the cops.... enjoy the high speed pursuit they would need chopper and have to set up spike belts miles ahead to catch you. but once your tires blow out at that speed... out the front window you go a few thousand feet. Definitely not survive that one. Would be a blast (no pun intended)
I'm glad they didn't shutter the doors, who knows what the world would be without Rolls Royce engines and thee competition it forces to other engine manufacturing. Long live the royal engine of the skies... the true king of the air that carry the Queen herself and the Queen of the skies
Great video! Even as a pilot I never really realized all that goes into these engines! And did anyone else notice they stole the music from the movie Wall-E there?
I think you're thinking of United Airlines Flight 232, that was a DC-10, and it probably had GE engines. There was one incident where an L-1011 had a similar problem but one of the hydraulic systems survived and no one was injured. There weren't any other engine problems, and that was one of the few times anything actually related to the construction of an L-1011 caused an incident. The DC-10 on the other hand.. That was the one where pilots really got to put those disaster skills to the test.
There are multiple different types of bearings holding the 3 shafts to distribute the axial and radial loads. Cylindrical and tapered roller bearings, ball hearings and needle bearings are the common bearings used depending on their funciton and placement.
When you think about the tolerances required to build both these turbofans and indeed the aircraft themselves, it's a staggering achievement... I remember reading about the design and building of the 747 and the entire aircraft are built to a tolerance of 1000th of a inch, the entire aircraft.. and those engines must be trebly so..let that sink in...
At 28:00 the blades being shown are now made by 3D metal printers ... if i'm not mistaken. In any case, Rolls-Royce (and other manufacturers of jet-engines) are certainly using 3D printers to make similar blades.
It's interesting to watch this from the puget sound. In so many ways this area's relationship with Boeing mirrors that of Rolls Royce to Darby. Almost everyone here knows someone who works or has worked at Boeing. But where RR seems to be committed to it's roots there Boeing isn't & I think it shows. Each year it seems now Boeing is less and less well liked. Where Rolls seems to find success focusing on the development & production of engines and the like. Boeing has not, contracting out as much
Modern day cars have a thermal efficiency of around 25% to 32%. Bypass fan engines from companies such as legendary Rolls Royce; thermal efficiency is around 97%. That is what I call engineering progress
They make it sound like all the components are made in the UK.. They are certainly not. I've worked on over a hundred GenX Fan hub frames at Volvo Aero Corporation in Sweden. We make what the others can not =)
Trick question, it really depends on what you're planning to use the engine for, if it was for a tractor you'd want something with a lot of low rpm torque such as an electric motor for an aircraft or ship you'd want something with lots of power and a constant speed like a turbine engine or some jet. As for hydrogen, in theory it could work in any combustion engine, since hydrogen would actually be the fuel, there's an episode of mythbusters where they run a conventional piston engine on it.
The Boeing 787 in beginning at Paine field is the Boeing plant thats located in Everett, Wa. Not Seattle. Than they still go and talk about the weather in Seattle.
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Amazing work... Wow!! ? Just after 38:08 the narrator states that the main fan in flight spins faster than the speed of sound... Did he misspeak? I thought that all the fan blade components had to be subsonic in operation so they do not incurr sonic shock waves & break... Can anyone chime in on this? Thanks!
albert bahoogadin ... Thanks for the reply. There isn't much clear discussion on this. The thing that gets even more confusing is that the speed of sound or the Mach number is variable depending on the air pressure... Where in the compressor and turbine stages sound travels faster due to high pressures/density. How this effects moving components & combustion, I'm not sure. Perhaps the splitting of the spools & counter rotation in the new turbofans mitigates this issue by canceling out the resonance... Of course the larger diameter of the big thrust fan will make the blade tips move faster given the same RPM of the turbine components... This is probably why P&W introduced a planetary reduction gear for the final drive of the big fan increasing the bypass ratio... Quite a science in that. HA!
Very good documentary but it still missed out the names of a few keyparts. The "brain" of the engine is know as the FADEC (Full-Authority-Digital-Electronic-Control)
Just researched that it was an intermediate pressure turbine disc failure,but surely the engine design should be such that fragments are contained within the engine environment...
The uncontained failure you're referring to was a turbine disc failure - not the massive fan blade which is tested here. I can't remember the details but I think there was an overspeed event and they fixed the problem quickly (they had to). R-R has never had an uncontained fan blade failure on their large civil engines unlike their competitors.
RR is an excellent engine company. But it isn't the best. It's by far GE. It's unfortunate that RR caused the only crash of a 777. It's fuel/ Oil heater was the cause of the problem. That is only one reason why some don't appreciate it.
They forgot to mention, do not mount defective stub pipes. They did in the Trent 900, which caused an oil fire. The engine caught fire, a turbine came apart and pieces severely damaged the landing system of a Qantus A380. The Qantus crew saved the day. If Rolls Royce does that one again they will be out of business.
I noticed that there are no muslims or africans contributing their massive intellectual skills to the project.........i guess they are too smart for this line of work..
I have not seen such a wonderful team of workers who take so much pride in their work in many other organizations. That's the ideal characteristics of a technology firm in the 21st century. You are the leaders!
I told Boeing I watched this video and now I am a full time engineer. Thanks!
from the people who discover an design. down to the ppl who build it. it blows my mind about how smart ppl are
Quan SoCalm
At the age of 13 I got to fly from JAX to LAX on a L1011. It was the greatest adventure of my young life!!! Bravo Rolls Royce!!!!!
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@chrstian john michael tambun, you are deffinently not one of the smartest :)
212 Kyte Hello. Please see frame 11:22
Haha what the fuck. Was watching a documentary about jet engines, scrolled down to find a flame war
Cool, for companies to organize choirs, bands, and other activities is terrific. Sorry about the issues with the Trent 1000 on Dreamliners
Wow. I just love those dynamic breaks or thrust reversers bucketing out of the jet engine at 1:40.
Having watched the video, I can only express my utmost respect for all the people involved in creating these masterpieces of modern technology!
27:54 I like Steve's enthusiasm for perfection, and his joyfulness. This, more than anything, shows how human emotion, not the absence of it, is at the core of anything that is made with such amazing precision and strength. In fact, what's more fascinating to me than the engine is the genuine integrity of all of the people in this documentary, and how much pleasure this kind of work brings them. I doubt there's a better way to live. Maybe different, but not better.
That must be one of the best jobs on the planet. I'd completely love it.
Thanks to series producer Steve Crabtree and Director Paul King for this outstanding program on Rolls Royce-- so intriguing, I cannot wait to watch it at least once more-- even as long as it is. There is no wasted narrative or extra footage in covering the mammoth complexity of the Rolls Royce operation and its suppliers.
Particularly fascinating was not only the precise engineering of energy in each engine, but even the post-sale digital field monitoring of some 8,000-10,000 completed engines in regular service.
What a tragedy it would have been for the company's finest moment, the birth of the Trent series engines, to have been eclipsed by a bankruptcy. All, going to show major advances in technology are never neatly predictable and spreadsheet-perfect affairs.
* As a historical observation, the stunning and remarkable coincidence for BMW, manufacturer of WW2 fighter aircraft engines for the FW190, to begin production of the Rolls Royce luxury sedan, once the signature product of the same company which made Merlin engines for the Spitfire (Lancaster, etc).
British engineering at it's best. Master piece engines. Can you reload it in HD please!!!
Everyone of these people are definitely masters of there craft. Beyond impressed by Rolls Royce. Makes me feel even safer when going up six miles high.
This is absolutly Amazing.Love it.
Thank you so much.I always wanted to build a jet engine.Now I know how.
this has got to be the most useful How-To vid on youtube....
I must say, the new compressor technology IS impressive.
Finally!! a how to guide... now I can build one at home :)
just strap it to the top of the car.... hit that highway and blow past the cops.... enjoy the high speed pursuit they would need chopper and have to set up spike belts miles ahead to catch you. but once your tires blow out at that speed... out the front window you go a few thousand feet. Definitely not survive that one. Would be a blast (no pun intended)
Lmao too funny
build two. might as well.
Michaelc136 a
Very good g
Btw, ever since I watched this, I've been making 20 Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines a week.
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Yes they are, but I think GE is right up there with them. Have you seen the Goliath engine?
I'm glad they didn't shutter the doors, who knows what the world would be without Rolls Royce engines and thee competition it forces to other engine manufacturing.
Long live the royal engine of the skies... the true king of the air that carry the Queen herself and the Queen of the skies
When technology achieves its highest levels, somehow it becomes poetry. This is simply amazing.
Great video! Even as a pilot I never really realized all that goes into these engines! And did anyone else notice they stole the music from the movie Wall-E there?
I feel a sense of security when boarding a plane and noticing RR written on the engines. Something tells me I'm in good hands.
Very inspiring video for a very inspiring company. Politics could certainly learn something from Rolls Royce.
Proud group. And they should be. Well done, RR.
Awesome vid;......England gives us the best rock music also!!!!
Great video :) thanks for uploading this. Jet engines are so frickin awesome.
I think you're thinking of United Airlines Flight 232, that was a DC-10, and it probably had GE engines.
There was one incident where an L-1011 had a similar problem but one of the hydraulic systems survived and no one was injured. There weren't any other engine problems, and that was one of the few times anything actually related to the construction of an L-1011 caused an incident.
The DC-10 on the other hand.. That was the one where pilots really got to put those disaster skills to the test.
i was in total awe of their skills to perfection until I saw the welds at 48:34.
There are multiple different types of bearings holding the 3 shafts to distribute the axial and radial loads. Cylindrical and tapered roller bearings, ball hearings and needle bearings are the common bearings used depending on their funciton and placement.
When you think about the tolerances required to build both these turbofans and indeed the aircraft themselves, it's a staggering achievement... I remember reading about the design and building of the 747 and the entire aircraft are built to a tolerance of 1000th of a inch, the entire aircraft.. and those engines must be trebly so..let that sink in...
At 28:00 the blades being shown are now made by 3D metal printers ... if i'm not mistaken. In any case, Rolls-Royce (and other manufacturers of jet-engines) are certainly using 3D printers to make similar blades.
Probably the only solid quality product of the UK ....❗️
It's interesting to watch this from the puget sound. In so many ways this area's relationship with Boeing mirrors that of Rolls Royce to Darby. Almost everyone here knows someone who works or has worked at Boeing. But where RR seems to be committed to it's roots there Boeing isn't & I think it shows. Each year it seems now Boeing is less and less well liked. Where Rolls seems to find success focusing on the development & production of engines and the like. Boeing has not, contracting out as much
you convinced me i want to buy all your engines, all of tehem...
The Best Engines in the World.... ROLLS ROYCE!!
THIS is really fascinating stuff man, just excellent! Thanks for the upload!
The video is very interesting.
Thanks man... Now go & have a drink..sounds like ya need one!
The one & only Engine!!...A ROLLS ROYCE!
Modern day cars have a thermal efficiency of around 25% to 32%. Bypass fan engines from companies such as legendary Rolls Royce; thermal efficiency is around 97%.
That is what I call engineering progress
Ady Kay-Module Fitter is my friend's Dad, I saw him make one of these. It was pretty cool.
They make it sound like all the components are made in the UK.. They are certainly not. I've worked on over a hundred GenX Fan hub frames at Volvo Aero Corporation in Sweden. We make what the others can not =)
I have one question. how long did it take u people to com with this idea to make this kind of engines
That dude at the warehouse definitely ain't walking at least 16 miles a day
i might get one of these for my bike
Really fantastic..!!
Amazing.
Hi brygger222... old trick... its a funnel that is used to drags out an antenna (HF).
Trick question, it really depends on what you're planning to use the engine for, if it was for a tractor you'd want something with a lot of low rpm torque such as an electric motor for an aircraft or ship you'd want something with lots of power and a constant speed like a turbine engine or some jet. As for hydrogen, in theory it could work in any combustion engine, since hydrogen would actually be the fuel, there's an episode of mythbusters where they run a conventional piston engine on it.
Looks like 2 fans hooked together.
Pretty much. Think of a turboprop engine. Now remove the propeller and replace it with a high-efficiency ducted fan - and voila!
The Boeing 787 in beginning at Paine field is the Boeing plant thats located in Everett, Wa. Not Seattle. Than they still go and talk about the weather in Seattle.
If you asked, we can be sure few in even the American audience could locate Seattle, much less Everett.
That's who I thought it was after a minute of listening, I actually still wonder if it's him or not.
I used to work on the F402-RR-408A engines
You can actually build one from a turbo out of a truck that will run off a BBQ LPG tank. :)
Just so amazing to see.
Finally I can start to build my own jumbo jet engine
No matter how much care and precision they excercise, errors happen. One almost brought down a Quatas A-380
One bird strike can destroy an entire jumbo jet.
exellent vid mate
I have totally renewed faith now that Humanity will get to Mars ok. Man, that is some incredible engineering.
Man - Morning!
Them - 👀 .. *Continues Working*
Well Then !
31:11 Apollo crew skim around the moon.
notes taken... now I can get to work faster!
Sweet
beautiful tech
It sounds like the old British car industry all over again.
wonderful Rolls Royce
The TRENT 1000 ENGINES ISSUES Explained
th-cam.com/video/IaLL4utLB6A/w-d-xo.html
Boeing 787s Groundings Stretch Into 2020
th-cam.com/video/m7GrCJEfK-A/w-d-xo.html
Rolls Royce was a major mistake for Boeing.
Amazing work... Wow!!
? Just after 38:08 the narrator states that the main fan in flight spins faster than the speed of sound... Did he misspeak? I thought that all the fan blade components had to be subsonic in operation so they do not incurr sonic shock waves & break... Can anyone chime in on this? Thanks!
albert bahoogadin ... Thanks for the reply.
There isn't much clear discussion on this. The thing that gets even more confusing is that the speed of sound or the Mach number is variable depending on the air pressure... Where in the compressor and turbine stages sound travels faster due to high pressures/density. How this effects moving components & combustion, I'm not sure. Perhaps the splitting of the spools & counter rotation in the new turbofans mitigates this issue by canceling out the resonance... Of course the larger diameter of the big thrust fan will make the blade tips move faster given the same RPM of the turbine components... This is probably why P&W introduced a planetary reduction gear for the final drive of the big fan increasing the bypass ratio... Quite a science in that. HA!
that engineering is insatiable
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the voice of agriculture.
The DC-10 had the Pratt & Whitney JT9D and the GE CF6. Just sayin.
Still the greatest. Long live RR!
Very good documentary but it still missed out the names of a few keyparts. The "brain" of the engine is know as the FADEC (Full-Authority-Digital-Electronic-Control)
Just researched that it was an intermediate pressure turbine disc failure,but surely the engine design should be such that fragments are contained within the engine environment...
SKYLANDBAK Well the dont, just ask Airbus lol.
what holds the shaft that holds the whole assembly shaft? are there any bearings
what is this background music in the start! please i have been looking for it for so looong
theres a video here on a steam engine flying a airplane in 1958 on steam with a 2 cyclinder engine. a electric motor is 95% efficient
Amazing!
Well, according to my logical thinking process, you'll need a very jumbo basement space to do this in ....
Damn. You're good.
The uncontained failure you're referring to was a turbine disc failure - not the massive fan blade which is tested here. I can't remember the details but I think there was an overspeed event and they fixed the problem quickly (they had to). R-R has never had an uncontained fan blade failure on their large civil engines unlike their competitors.
Such a great company
That's just old age creeping in :-)
RR is an excellent engine company. But it isn't the best. It's by far GE. It's unfortunate that RR caused the only crash of a 777. It's fuel/ Oil heater was the cause of the problem. That is only one reason why some don't appreciate it.
Quantas should switch to the best... ROLLS ROYCE!! Without a doubt!
26:54 why aren’t they forged instead of cast? Wouldn’t that decrease imperfections?
It seems that the single crystal structure is better (only?) obtained with casting + heat treatments.
Anyone know where you can get this on DVD?
does anyone have the link for the next episode?
Song at end while the guy is talking?
nice tutorial!
It's basically a huge hairdryer.
Notice at 25:26, the design of the building and its roof is shaped like a turbine airfoil!
Now that you mention it...
amazing ~~
@ approx 0250 secs, there is something hanging off the back of the tail. Can anyone tell me what it is?
They forgot to mention, do not mount defective stub pipes. They did in the Trent 900, which caused an oil fire. The engine caught fire, a turbine came apart and pieces severely damaged the landing system of a Qantus A380. The Qantus crew saved the day. If Rolls Royce does that one again they will be out of business.
I noticed that there are no muslims or africans contributing their massive intellectual skills to the project.........i guess they are too smart for this line of work..
good
Wow after watching this makes me proud to be British!
British looted the whole world included diamond in the crown of yurs oldie queen.
Rose red big deal so what
Rose red and besides whats looting diamonds got to do with aircraft engine's
What's the music at 28:40? I've been looking for it for a while